Benjamin Keep, PhD, JD | What Grad Students Know @benjaminkeep | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 22 minutes ago.
What's the difference between grad students and undergrad students? One difference is how they go about solving problems, especially complicated problems involving lots of data.

I'll give you a hint: the answer has something to do with adaptive expertise. Grad students got it. Or at least have something that we'd call adaptive expertise.

00:00 Introduction
00:14 The problem
01:18 Who did better?
01:52 The more important question
03:43 What grad students did
04:48 Undergrad style
05:12 Improving the tool
06:19 What does time have to do with it?
06:52 It's about habits
08:12 My sales pitch

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The study this video was based on:

Martin, L., & Schwartz, D. L. (2009). Prospective adaptation in the use of external representations. Cognition and Instruction, 27(4), 370-400. (available at https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.538.7632&rep=rep1&type=pdf)

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