| Speaker name: |
Dr. Milton Hakel |
| Topic: |
On Mastery Learning and the Future of Higher Education |
| Series: |
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College Speaker Series |
| Date: |
10/21 |
| Time: |
2 pm |
| Location: |
Nursing & Math Building / Room 101 |
| Admission: |
Free |
| Presentation description: |
University instruction is becoming more learning-centered.
We are present at the creation of a new science of learning,
with many ways in which we can better help our students
create durable learning and integrated skills. Bransford,
Brown, and Cocking's landmark book How People Learn: Brain,
Mind, Experience, and School begins "Today,
the world is in the midst of an extraordinary outpouring
of scientific work on the mind and brain, on the processes
of thinking and learning, on the neural processes that
occur during thought and learning, and on the development
of competence." Research shows that changes in
the way we carry out teaching-learning interactions can
pay large and lasting dividends in student learning. Securing
these benefits is an enormous challenge, one that we must
meet. It requires deeper understanding of what is meant
by "competence, mastery,and placing student achievement
first" at Stephen F. Austin State University. |
| Speaker biography: |
Milton D. Hakel is the Ohio Board of
Regents' Eminent Scholar in Industrial and Organizational
Psychology at Bowling Green State University, in Bowling
Green, Ohio. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1966
from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Hakel began his career
with research on selection interviewing practices with
support from the National Science Foundation. Research
support has also come from the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard,
and Army, as well as the private sector. He edited Personnel
Psychology for a decade, and has been its publisher for
the past 20 years. He chaired the Scientific Advisory Group
for the U.S. Armyís
Project A, the largest study ever undertaken of the longitudinal
measurement and meaning of human differences.
Dr. Hakel is a former Fulbright-Hays Senior Research
Scholar in Italy (1978), and recently completed 6 years
as a member and 2 years as chair of the U.S. National Committee
for the International Union of Psychological Science. Currently
he is a member of the Board of Directors of the International
Association for Applied Psychology. He is a winner of the
James McKeen Cattell Award for excellence in research design
from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
(SIOP). He served as SIOP's president in 1983-84. He is
a fellow of SIOP, the American Psychological Society, and
the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Hakel chaired the Coordinating Committee for the
Human Capital Initiative, a national effort to bring psychological
science to the attention of governmental and private sector
officials as a source of solutions to national problems.
He serves on the Board on Testing and Assessment of the
National Research Council. Recently he co-chaired a working
retreat on Applying the Science of Learning to University
Education. An edited book on this topic was published in
March, 2002, and his major current interest is in the role
of formative assessment in learning and performance. |
| Associated Activities: |
Reception to follow |
| Date of Activities: |
10/21 |
| Time of Activities: |
3 pm |
| Location of Activities: |
Nursing & Math Building / Room
101 |
| Seating Capacity: |
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| Activity Admission: |
Free |
| University Sponsor: |
Implementaiton Committee for Distinctive Identity |
| Contact Person: |
Norm Markworth
nmarkworth@sfasu.edu
936.468.2097 |
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Dr. Milton Hakel |
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