Strategy instruction enhances K-12 students' argumentative writing performance, both after instruction and in the future. Such an impressive body of evidence! Here's hoping more educators adopt the methods described here. doi.org/10.1037/edu0...

Such an honor to give a keynote at the Society of Text and Discourse conference this year! And this talk was a new spin on some things that have been percolating in my mind, so I appreciated everyone's feedback. I've already got ideas for new directions for this work! @textdiscourse.bsky.social

This is a fun one. Refutation podcasts helped participants better explain why learning styles aren't "a thing" but all podcasts (including one without refutation) decreased belief in learning styles myth. Could be a topic-specific effect? doi.org/10.1016/j.le...

Me, helpfully pointing out which one is me. #textdiscourse2026

Full disclosure: I may be out of my depth here, but I read this article as arguing for metacognitive (what they call "metalearning") planning processes including not just forward search but also precomputation and refinement of models of the world. Sound like metacognitive knowledge & skills, to me.

Public high students who received instruction in deep note-taking during lectures outperformed their peers; no effect of media or interaction (although power was a bit low). Note-taking can be effective, when students are taught how to engage deeply during it. doi.org/10.1016/j.le...

There's a key distinction in this article between acquired skills and cognitive capacities (e.g., working memory) with the evidence suggesting the former can be affected by #GenAI offloading but not the latter. I do think... (1/2) doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

This is the intro to an important special issue on how designing for adaptivity must account for domain-specific aspects of learning (e.g., learning progressions, common misconceptions) as well as domain-general learning processes. #GenAI designers would be wise to read this. doi.org/10.1016/j.le...

Important work on whether predictive models can be ported across courses and institutions. The greater the differences in course design and/or base-rate of student difficulty, the less the models port. SRL theory can guide digital trade data interpretation in each context. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Yet another epic (human-created, no GenAI!) gift from my family, led by @gotowerscope.com. Ah donuts. Is there anything they can't do?

I love research finding a more positive view of the average person than the popular discourse. What gives me hope here is the miscalibration re: others' dishonesty, and how a recalibration intervention may change policy endorsements. Would love to see this applied to actual decision-making in situ.

30,000 hours. By my calculations, that's about how much time I have left in my academic career. How should I spend those 30,000 hours? I need to set clear goals, make good plans to reach those goals, gather data to monitor my progress, and be willing to adapt. That's being a self-regulated academic.

This study was designed for my own personal algorithm: preregistered, open data, experience sampling, multiple conceptual replications with thoughtful research designs, and a focus on attention and learning. In short: interpolated prequestions on content at beginning and throughout... (1/2)

I think AI literacy is an important idea that needs to be explored. What I really want/need is an analysis of AI literacy interventions that takes seriously what kinds of comparison groups are used and how outcomes are conceptualized and measured.

All the waterfalls. I think that’s a Slayer song, right?

North Carolina has some wonderful national parks.

(1) Many GenAI companies scraped copyright and other protected materials, yet I know of only one held accountable, and only to a relatively small degree. Seems like we need to revisit this. (2) Aligned with this pic, humans are accountable for what they produce with GenAI. (2/2)P

This study is a must-read because it explains both (a) why the current "is ChatGPT better for learning than X" literature is flawed (e.g., conflating medium and instructional method) and (b) how to do such studies in more rigorous and informative manners. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

It’s probably a good sign that 25 years of marriage have gone by in the blink of an eye and there’s still no one I’d rather go for a walk with than @gotowerscope.com.

This is the *kind* of research I think we need. It wasn't focused on "is teaching with GenAI better than X" but rather, "How do we teach with GenAI and what happens when we do so thoughtfully?" I would've designed the data analysis differently, but overall I appreciate the focus on process.

Our university time/payroll system is called "TIM" and every time I have to login, I cannot do so without saying, "There are some who call me...Tim?"

Coding think-aloud protocol data is HARD. I remember sitting alone in Roger Azevedo's lab, crying about my low interrater reliability. This article by Sirui Ren et al is a step toward having LLMS do that work. Should LLMs totally replace human coders? No. But can they help? I think yes. #NoMoreTears

"Many researchers are now convinced that humanlike AI, or artificial general intelligence (AGI), will require more than mastering language and images. It will require AIs that can reason about space, causality, and the consequences of actions..." (1/3) www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

Impressive long-term longitudinal study showing small relationship between motor activity proxy for behavioral regulation & academic achievement in elementary school, which in turn predicted high school achievement & educational attainment. I wonder about the roles of context, child-environment fit.

I feel so fortunate to be in a field with, you know, like, nice people who are also great scholars. Such a pleasure and honor to spend time with them.

Fascinating overview of Lorrie Shepard's efforts to promote formative assessment, mastery learning, a sociocultural perspective on learning and assessment, and high expectations for all students. Good advice for those who wish to influence policy in these areas. doi.org/10.1037/e3p0...

Garden of the Castle of São Jorge with @mattbernacki.bsky.social and peacocks!

It has been a wonderful International Conference on Motivation and Emotion, with a particular highlight being this symposium on how to think in a more integrated way about motivation, metacognition, personality, and self-regulation during learning.

"Instead of speaking in emotionally toned, fearmongering and pathologizing words about AI Psychosis or Brain Rot...conceptualize more nuanced and realistic terms about how technology interacts with many variables such as personal dispositions, situations context, or kind of content consumed..."

Excited about this new journal! "...we are at a critical time in history that suggests it is a moral imperative to weigh in on relevant policy issues where and how we can and that educational psychology science is well positioned to be a critical voice..." doi.org/10.1037/e3p0... (1/2)