Increase awareness and resilience of persuasion techniques;
Train active reading skills to reveal weaknesses in (otherwise good-quality) course literature.
Identifying underlying processes behind research findings;
Considering the process, would this manipulation be (in/counter)effective in another context?).
Critical assessment of prior research when developing their own research question;
Peer feedback on their own arguments and inferences in thesis drafts.
In their future careers, our students will be asked for evidence-based advice and interventions. This requires a critical assessment of how valid and applicable findings and conclusions in scientific articles are.
However, students indicate that they do not know how to critically read and apply scientific literature. For this purpose, we will develop an online training that helps students to actively practice critical reading from introduction to discussion, and to translate findings into follow-up research and interventions, while receiving immediate feedback.
For the full project description and plan, click here.
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Comenius Teaching Fellow Grant 'Critical Investigation: training critical reading skills'
“In their future careers, our students will be asked for evidence-based advice and interventions. This requires a critical assessment of how valid and applicable findings and conclusions in scientific articles
are. However, students indicate that they do not know how to read critically. There are educational materials that focus on methods and statistics or offer general reading tips. What is lacking is a training that helps students to actively practice critical reading from introduction to discussion and translate
findings into follow-up research and interventions, while receiving immediate feedback. Together with students, we will develop a widely deployable online training.”
Psychology Teacher of the Year 2021, Leiden Univeristy
“Anouk van der Weiden has been our colleague in Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology for two years now. Really what you call an overwhelming start as a teacher. She came, saw and won the education prize."
"Anouk is known among students as a passionate, enthusiastic and creative teacher who challenges them to develop themselves further in their studies and future careers. According to the committee she is the convincing winner of the Psychology Teacher of the Year Award 2021.”