The Illusion of Learning
The talk begins with two students leaving the same lecture with the same feeling that they learned, then examines whether attention, completion, familiarity, and fluency are sufficient evidence.
Talk direction
The talk introduces learning as a latent process and reframes the question from whether learning happened to what evidence supports that claim.
Current structure
- The feeling of learning.
- Why learning cannot be observed directly.
- Weak and strong forms of evidence.
- The Evidence of Learning framework.
- How learners can test changed capability.