Rebekah Freed

Remembering a former colleague 🦆

Normal work lunch, right?
#seattlelife

Retrieval Practice Versus Elaborative Encoding: A Systematic and Meta-analytic Review - Educational Psychology Review Retrieval practice has been consistently shown to be more beneficial for learning than restudy (e.g., rereading). An important question, however, is whether these benefits are reproduced when…

What's more effective, retrieval practice or elaboration? Retrieval practice with feedback > elaboration, and a stronger effect when the content was complex. I suspect, overall, what matters is using the best strategies for the content & task (i.e., why not both?). #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

NYT: Science Keeps Changing. So Why Should We Trust It? My thoughts on a January 5, 2026 article in the New York Times titled: "Science Keeps Changing. So Why Should We Trust It?"

Here are my thoughts on a New York Times article on trust in science. In short: I am glad trust in science is being discussed and would like to expand the discussion to include frontier v. consensus science and also deference to experts research. Gift link to the article in the thread..

Accelerated Expertise | Training for High Proficiency in a Complex Wor Speed in acquiring the knowledge and skills to perform tasks is crucial. Yet, it still ordinarily takes many years to achieve high proficiency in countless jobs

I wish more students and educators knew how often scholars across fields (e.g., education, learning, psychology, expertise development) have found that measures of intelligence predict success less reliably than more controllable factors like effort, practice, motivation, and coaching/support.

Learning to Monitor and Regulate Learning | 11 | v3 | Handbook of Rese In this chapter, we synthesize research on interventions for self-regulated learning (SRL). We begin by charting the development of SRL theory and how it led to

Coming soon from yours truly, Christy Hollander-Blackmon, and @mattbernacki.bsky.social : a Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction chapter on Learning to Monitor and Regulate Learning!
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

As co-chair of AERA's @srma-sig.bsky.social, I am pleased to announce our Fall 2025 webinar series focused on meta-analysis and systematic reviews!

On Friday (Oct 3), our first webinar will be given by James Pustejovsky @jepusto.bsky.social! 🎉

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We now live a block away from the water in the back of a cute little craftsman style house with a yard! 🥰 #wallingford

Did some traveling this summer during a weekend trip. In Seattle you are a couple hours’ drive from National parks. #washington

BFF from my Masters program at CSULB visited me in Seattle! 💜💜💜

State fair - my friend and I swapped out dogs for goats for the day #Washingtonstatefair

Coworker lunch on the water at UW! #seattle

Mentoring some former medical students in research. Those from Cali came to visit me in Seattle from KansasCOM. So fun! 🤩 #uw

Me and the pups are excited for cozy weather to return to Seattle 🥰

Screenshot of title page of article in press at The Journal of Experimental Education titled "College Undergraduates' Use of Epistemic Criteria and Strategies While Designing Psychology Research Studies."

As college students advance through their major, do they acquire greater knowledge of the epistemic aspects of their field? This initial study, authored by great people and also yours truly, suggests yes! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Picture of a giant piece of carrot cake from the Asali Cafe in Cary NC.

Carrot cake is birthday cake.

Enhancing Academic Performance Through Self-Explanation in Digital Learning Environments (DLEs): A Three-Level Meta-Analysis - Educational Psychology Review Self-explanation serves as a constructive learning scaffold in education, actively engaging learners in the identification of knowledge gaps and the rectification of erroneous mental models. This…

The evidence continues to accumulate that self-explanation is a powerful learning strategy, this time in digital learning environments. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Here's GREAT news for educators! You know all the hard work you put in to design outside of class activities to help your students learn? Well, when they do those things, in the order you intended, they actually learn more! Check it out: dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Expertise is necessarily narrow, thus one’s intellectual humility must be broad.

Foster puppy from Resilient Hearts got adopted 🎉

Seattle life

Graduation for UW School of Medicine 💜💛🌸

Screenshot of title and abstract of article in the journal Computers and Education titled "Does ChatGPT enhance student learning? A systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental studies."

This rigorous and critical meta-analysis of the existing experimental research on the effects of ChatGPT on learning and higher-order thinking may be more valuable for the critiques of the literature it raises than its findings. Kudos! doi.org/10.1016/j.co... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

All models are wrong but some are useful. For some people. In some contexts. Sometimes.

Match day at UW! 🎉💜

How Positive Childhood Experiences Offset Adversity Adversity in childhood can affect our health later in life. But positive childhood experiences also have a profound impact.

An emerging area of research shows how positive childhood experiences, like safety, stability, and nurturing relationships, can our impact health—even offsetting adverse childhood experiences. @preetisimransethi.bsky.social reports:

Volunteering with adorable puppies!#resilientheartsanimalsanctuary

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At Oscars, 'No Other Land' co-directors call for national rights for Palestinians The Oscar-winning documentary, made by a team of Palestinian-Israeli filmmakers, follows the displacement of rural Palestinian communities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The Oscar-winning documentary, made by a team of Palestinian-Israeli filmmakers, follows the displacement of rural Palestinian communities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.