An Effective Exercise for Teaching Cognitive Heuristics

Autor/in	Swinkels, Alan
Titel	An Effective Exercise for Teaching Cognitive Heuristics
Quelle	In: Teaching of Psychology, 30 (2003) 2, S.120-122 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0098-6283
DOI	10.1207/S15328023TOP3002_08
Schlagwörter	Heuristics; Feedback; Student Attitudes; Teaching Methods; College Students; Pretests Posttests; Instructional Effectiveness + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Heuristik; Schülerverhalten; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Collegestudent; Unterrichtserfolg
Abstract	This article describes a brief heuristics demonstration and offers suggestions for personalizing examples of heuristics by making them relevant to students. Students complete a handout asking for 4 judgments illustrative of such heuristics. The decisions are cast in the context of students' daily lives at their particular university. After the professor tallies responses to each question, students discuss their choices and the reasons for them during a subsequent class meeting. Student feedback indicated that this exercise is informative, interesting, and enjoyable. Results from a pretest-posttest study confirmed that student learning improved from before to after the administration of the exercise. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10