Association for Psychological Science 22nd Annual Convention: Boston, MA

APS Award Address

Lessons Learned in 60 Years of Teaching, Research, and Learning

Wilbert McKeachie
University of Michigan

Aim: To distill some of the things I have learned through brute experience.

Method: Thinking back about what I wish I had known earlier.

Results: One important lesson. Students learn more by talking to one another than to listen to me lecture.



2010 Program Committee
Tyler S. Lorig, Washington and Lee University (Chair); Nalini Ambady, Tufts University; Abigail Baird, Vassar College; Sian Beilock, University of Chicago; Daniel Klein, State University of New York, Stony Brook; Richard Lewis, Pomona College; Kris Preacher, University of Kansas; Deidra Schleicher, Purdue University; Timothy Strauman, Duke University; Tracy Zinn, James Madison University