Steven C. Pan, Ph.D. | stevencpan.bsky.social

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Our new paper on interleaved pretesting is now free to access as an Editor's Choice article in the latest #JARMAC issue, part of the special section on applying cognitive psychology to improve learning: sarmac.org/featured-conte…

The new issue of #JARMAC is coming soon, including a special section on a timely topic @OfficialSARMAC @APA_Journals @APA @StudentSARMAC

BREAKING NEWS - NUS has placed 8th best in the world & 1st in Asia in the QS World University Rankings 2025! #NUSExcellence #ShapeTheFuture #NUSImpact news.nus.edu.sg/nus-at-world-n…

[Preprint alert🚨] Check out our latest work in the Learning Sciences: Prequestioning Enhances @NUSingapore Undergraduate Students Learning 📚. A wonderful collaboration 🤝 with @StevenCPan and @han_jia_yi posted on @arxiv arxiv.org/abs/2403.02788

@chemFunMan @NUSingapore @han_jia_yi @arxiv Wonderful to collaborate with you too, @chemFunMan!

@SachaEpskamp @AdelaIsvoranu @dongwon_oh @PsychScience @NUSingapore Thanks for your kind words!!!

Congrats to @SachaEpskamp, @AdelaIsvoranu, and @dongwon_oh for their awards from @PsychScience. It's an honour to be your colleague here at @NUSingapore. news.nus.edu.sg/nus-researcher…

Participants who generated their own flashcards did as much as 25% better than those using premade cards. “If a student uses an existing flashcard set, then they are robbing themselves of the learning opportunities,” says @StevenCPan techlearning.com/news/tech-tool…

@SachaEpskamp @PsychScience @AdelaIsvoranu Congratulations, Sacha! So well deserved!!! Proud and honored to be your colleague!

Incredibly honored to be awarded the @PsychScience Janet Taylor Spence award for transformative early career contributions, and equally thrilled to see @AdelaIsvoranu recognized as @PsychScience Rising Star. Given all the challenges we faced together both in and outside academia I can't express what an honor it is to be recognized this way at the same time. (1/2) psychologicalscience.org/news/2024-febr… psychologicalscience.org/members/awards…

@EdScientists Thank you for the encouragement! :)

I make flashcards on Quizlet everyday to try to memorize education things. I’ve never understood the pre-made flashcards. Half the learning is in making the flashcards yourself! This study confirms that. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi…

Thanks @MrZachG, hope the article is useful!

If I had to sum up the crucial idea of learning as a cumulative process of forgetting and remembering and in one sentence, it would be this: "the act of retrieval is itself a potent learning event." (Bjork, Bjork 1992) Retrieval practice isn't about testing whether someone has learned something, it's actually a vital part of the learning. In other words, learning doesn't happen in a single lesson or episode where the teacher has "covered" the content. It happens over repeated episodes where we encounter, forget, retrieve, associate and consolidate that knowledge. This process doesn't fit neatly into the boundary of a lesson unit which is why asking teachers to 'show learning in a lesson' is so misguided. What you're seeing is merely the briefest glimmer of learning which might lead to actual learning but which depends greatly on what happens next.

Thanks @OfficialSARMAC for showcasing this research!

Thank you @PoojaAgarwal for sharing your insights, research, and for your incredible #scicomm work!!!

It was a joy to share and discuss research with such a fantastic assemblage of students and researchers! Thanks #WIASLL23!

Such a delight to be in Würzburg, Germany for #WIASLL23. Thanks to @VeitKubik and Tobias Richter for organizing this incredible Autumn School on Lasting Learning. And what a gorgeous location -- just look at this view! :)

@ShanaKCarpenter This paper is open access (free for anyone to download) here: link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

New publication in Educational Psychology Review: a review of research, theories, applications, and other aspects of the burgeoning prequestioning and pretesting literatures (in collaboration with @ShanaKCarpenter): link.springer.com/article/10.100…