Our year in review looks back to find the most noteworthy learning from the past season. We always search for concrete “should’s” in our classroom – like encouraging students before tests or interleaving your skill practice. However, our top prizes go to big picture ideas about the very structure of our education system.
Later, we reflect on our personal teaching journey and what we’ve learned about saisons this year.
- First Segment – Most Noteworthy Papers
- 03:25 – Ep105 Fear of Evaluation
- 05:06 – Ep113 Interleaved New Languages
- 08:20 – Ep111 Reward Spacing
- 11:51 – Ep107 Motivational Messages from Teachers
- 19:05 – Ep104 Agency & Dopamine
- 24:15 – Ep108 Philosophical Coherence in Class Design
- 29:30 – Ep112 Grading Policy Research Paucity
- Second Segment – 35:52 – Most Noteworthy Teaching Practices
Primary Citations
| Season | Standing | Selector | Paper | Year | Link |
| 9 | HM | LW | Unraveling the interactive effects of fear of evaluation, feedback valence, and feedback orientation on adolescents’ creative performance | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2025.102231 |
| 9 | HM | MR | Interleaved practice in foreign language grammar learning: A field study. | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000917 |
| 9 | 3rd | MR | Duration between rewards controls the rate of behavioral and dopaminergic learning. | 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02206-2 |
| 9 | 3rd | LW | Motivational messages from teachers before exams: Links to intrinsic motivation, engagement, and academic performance | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2024.104750 |
| 9 | 2nd | MR | Motivational messages from teachers before exams: Links to intrinsic motivation, engagement, and academic performance | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2024.104750 |
| 9 | 2nd | LW | Just do it: A neuropsychological theory of agency, cognition, mood, and dopamine | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001587 |
| 9 | 1st | MR | Do All the Things: Inquiry-Based Learning with Teams, Collaborative Grading, and Individual Goal Setting in Euclidean Geometry for Future Teachers. | 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1080/10511970.2025.2567529 |
| 9 | 1st | LW | How will I be graded? The past, present, and future of research on grading policies and student motivation in secondary and postsecondary education | 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1080/00461520.2026.2636491 |
Supplemental Citations
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Featured Beverage
This season included the award of three Mugs of Honor:
- Laurence awarded his mug to Colette, farmhouse ale from Great Divide Brewing Co. in Denver, CO we drank on Episode 105.
- Michael awarded his mug to Saison Brett, a dry-hopped farmhouse ale with Brettanomyces from Boulevard Brewing Co. in Kansas City, MO we drank on Episode 112.
- Meg awarded her mug to Tropical Tank, a tropical riff on the Tank 7 American Saison by Boulevard Brewing Co. in Kansas City, MO we drank on Episode 110.