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EPSY 5121 - Debugging Failure in Learning
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Fall Odd Year
This course investigates the double-edge potential of failure to catalyze and thwart learning. The goal is to develop a multi-dimensional framework drawing on psychological, cognitive, interpersonal, and systemic perspectives that can be used in research to document, understand, problematize, and ultimately support students experiences with failure during learning. Central topics include causal attributions, play-based failures, counter storytelling, inequities, framing, and motivation. Course activities include reviews of experimental and observational research; reflections on video of students and instructors navigating moments of failure; and opportunities to develop research designs and/or analyze new data attending to failure.