Does talking out loud help with learning?

Processing new information, and drawing connections across readings or concepts can be a challenging cognitive task, and yet our courses and assignments sometimes require this ability. In this time-out, I invited two colleagues to help me learn more about how a “think aloud” session or training might enhance students confidence, their ability to trust source information, and allow instructors to catch, in real time, how a student’s line of thought may be guiding them in the wrong direction.

Tarchi 2020: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/acp.3782

Barnett 1998: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED422288

Banning 2008: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17383056/

Tanner 2012: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22665584/