J. Ryan Nielson

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What sorts of strategies have you personally found to be effective for achieving transfer for your students?

A friend once described transfer as the ability to take what one has learned and apply it in a new setting. He similarly described this a very, very hard to achieve. He described this as the...

07 July 2016 7,577 12 View

Do you have any ideas to address student belief that seeing is emitted by their eyes?

Students appear to believe that "seeing" must be emitted by their eyes in order to see themselves in the mirror. Some believe that this must be activated by light from, say a ceiling light to...

02 February 2016 8,192 5 View

Why do 15-30% of students believe that seeing must be emitted from their eyes?

I have summarized the diagrams of some 300 or so students (6 semesters worth) which they gave as free responses to an exam question from a GE course called Light, Sound, & Perception. Between...

05 May 2015 9,362 1 View