Presenter Name and Title: James E. Folkestad, PhD, Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar; Thomas A. Rausch, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar

Presentation Description: Are you looking for a powerful tool to enhance student learning outcomes and provide empirical evidence of your impact in the classroom? Look no further than the U-Behavior method. This innovative instructional approach, seamlessly integrated into the Canvas Learning Management System, empowers you to coach students in effective study strategies such as distributed practice, retrieval practice, and interleaving. With U-Behavior, you’ll have access to personalized visualizations of student practice behaviors, offering valuable insights into your students’ study habits. Not only does U-Behavior lead to significant improvements in student study behaviors (Cohen’s d of 1.2), but it has repeatedly boosted performance by one letter grade (Cohen’s d = 0.70) on comprehensive final examinations. The method also provides instructors with tangible evidence of their efforts to support student learning and success. Join us to discover how U-Behavior gets students to practice (study) while you teach and how the method can provide you with significant evidence on how you are implementing the Teacher Effectiveness Framework (TEF).

Teaching Effectiveness Framework Alignment: Instructional Strategies