Understanding tasks and why you are in grad school | Episode 3

In our third episode, Sarah and Becca talk about the importance of task understanding! They also:

• review why self-regulating your learning is so crucial for grad students


• talk about understanding tasks in grad school


• discuss external and internal aspects of tasks


• answer a question about staying in a Master's degree or changing to a PhD


• give two hot tips about how to analyze tasks effectively.

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Show notes:

Hadwin, A. F. (2006). Do your students really understand your assignment? LTC Currents Newsletter, II(3), 1-9.

Miller, M. F. (2009). Predicting university students’ performance of a complex task: does task understanding moderate the influence of self-efficacy? [Master's thesis, University of Victoria]. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1748

Oshige, M. (2009). Exploring task understanding in self-regulated learning: task understanding as a predictor of academic success in undergraduate students. [Master's thesis, University of Victoria]. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1690

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