Anxiety and Undergraduates’ Learning Potential: A Cognitive Perspective
CATE Seminar Series: Scholars in Teaching & Learning
April 23, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location
A Zoom link will be sent to those who RVSP for the seminar within 24 hours of the seminar date.
Address
Chicago, IL
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Seminar speaker:
Almaz Mesghina, M.A.
Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Human Development
Predoctoral Fellow, Institute for Education Sciences
University of Chicago
Seminar date and time:
Friday, April 23, 2021 | 10:00 – 11:00 AM
Follow-up Q&A with speaker:
Same day | 11:00 – 11:30 AM
Abstract:
A growing body of work shows that many undergraduates, particularly students of historically marginalized identities in academia, experience quite severe levels of anxiety during their college years. The pandemic has only exacerbated this. In this talk, I summarize the research on anxiety and performance, using my research on undergraduates’ COVID-19 anxiety as an illustration. I will share how anxiety can manifest cognitively, and explore student-level (emotion regulation) and teacher-level (instructional design) strategies that we can use to help promote all students’ learning, even while anxious.
Bio:
Almaz (pronounced all - mahz) is a fifth year PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago, where she is a trained psychologist and a dedicated instructor. Almaz bridges these roles in her research by examining how insights from cognitive psychology can inform our pedagogical practices, and vice versa. She is particularly interested in understanding how anxiety can promote or hinder our capacity to learn. Almaz is the recipient of an Institute for Education Sciences pre-doctoral fellowship. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Child Development from Vanderbilt University.
Date posted
Mar 26, 2021
Date updated
Mar 26, 2021