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The Expertise Reversal Effect: When Scaffolding Becomes a Ceiling
A UNSW finding from the early 2000s shows that scaffolding beginners need becomes a ceiling for advanced students, and explains a lot of teaching…
Prompting Patterns That Help Students Learn vs. Ones That Substitute
Socratic chains, explain-first-ask-second, worked-example critique: prompt patterns that force retrieval instead of outsourcing a student's thinking.
Judgments of Learning: Why You Are a Poor Judge of What You Know
Rereading feels like mastery because fluency fools the brain, and students who trust that feeling consistently underestimate what they have not learned