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How Student Engagement in Explanatory Modeling Activities Can Help Teachers of Psychology
The explanatory modeling activities recommended by GLN Consulting are designed to promote students’ use of higher-order thinking skills to achieve a deeper understanding of the subject matter of psychology. There is an important difference between learning that leads to rote knowledge and learning that leads to depth of understanding. Deeper understanding of a scientific domain can be very difficult to teach, but students can often acquire this kind of understanding by engaging in the kinds of activities that have been shown to promote...
read moreThe Theoretical Basis for Student Engagement in EMAs
The explanatory modeling tasks and recommended strategies contained in the current service packages offered by GLN Consulting are refinements of student engagement activities originally used by Dr. Newsome in his own teaching. Since his retirement from teaching, these activities and strategies have been refined through an extensive, integrative analysis of selected research on creative problem solving by expert scientists and college students and research on how scientific explanations enhance understanding of a target domain. The studies...
read moreThe New GLN Consulting Website
GLN Consulting has redesigned its interactive website to make it more user-friendly. The original design of our website in 2003 was intended to enable GLN Consulting to offer consulting services that were both convenient and inexpensive. When all consulting activities are conducted online, there are no additional expenses, such as travel. The client interface tool was developed to make our services more convenient by providing the client with continuous access to the consultant throughout the course of the consulting process (e.g. the duration...
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GLN Consulting was founded in 2003 by Dr. George L. Newsome, III to help teachers develop in their students the cognitive skills that are necessary to think critically about the subject matter of psychology.
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