Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Volume 27, Number 1

I've come to believe that recognizing and then actively using [a] meta-learning perspective to analyze and evaluate your own learning experiences is particularly important, perhaps essential, to transforming undergraduate education. It is, in essence, the application of learning theory to yourself, and, as such, it is evidence of deep learning. Once I began seeing in myself examples of how learning occurs, it suddenly became easier to apply my new knowledge in the classroom. Deeply understanding the tenacity of my misconceptions made it easier to develop strategies to identify and overcome them in my students. For instance, I often now ask, "Tell me why you think that," or "Where in the text is that idea?" when students give me a wrong answer. I want to know why they think the way they do. (Mulnix, 2016, pp. 7-8; in this issue)