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Psychology professor lectures about
success indicators, achievement
Ways to assist low-achieving students also discussed in psychology talk
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Oh deer! Tuesday morning,
Cynthia Westphal, wife of City
Councilmember Kirk Westphal
(D–Ward 2), hit two deer on Fox
Hunt Drive while driving her
two sons — ages 8 and 10 — to
school.
Fox Hunt Drive is close to
King Elementary School in the
northeast section of Ann Arbor.
Kirk Westphal shared in a
Facebook post that his wife was
only driving 10 mph, so the deer
were unharmed by the collision.
He said they ran out into the
road and bounced off the front
of the car before running off
into the woods.
“She was driving 10 mph
in the snow,” Westphal wrote.
“One bounced off the front
bumper, the other jumped and
tripped over the roof. The deer
ran off.”
Westphal, who was not in
the car at the time of the crash,
added there was no damage
to the car aside from some fur
being left in the door jamb.
“Amazingly, some fur in the
door jamb
is the only
physical
sign of what
happened,”
he wrote.
Westphal
has voted
in favor of
controlling Ann
Arbor’s deer
population,
specifically the
cull of 63 deer
last year, and he
has used the 40
to 50 residents
who kill deer
with their cars
each year as
a supporting
element of his
argument.
Michigan
State police reported a notable jump
in deer killed by cars in Ann Arbor
in 2015, a 76 percent increase from
2014. Data for 2016 has not yet been
released.
-KAELA THEUT
ON THE DAILY: OH DEER!
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Liu Yuening performs on the Chinese Dulcimer during the Similar Roots, Different Tones concert at the Michigan
League Tuesday evening.
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Psychology Prof. Fred Morrison
presented what he believes to be
the predictors of success in school
and ways to help low-achieving
students improve performance
during a University of Michigan
psychology talk Tuesday night at
the Ann Arbor Public Library.
Morrison discussed past studies
supporting his claims, which show
variability in performance from
a young age and how to respond
to those findings, including what
can aid development, inside and
outside school.
“What we’ve learned, I think,
over the past 15 to 20 years is that
basically American students show
great variability in their language,
cognitive, social, academic and
related skills,” Morrison said.
“That predicts their success in
school.”
Morrison
focused
on
self-
regulation and the importance
of it in children. He defined self-
regulation as children’s ability
to inhibit appropriate responses,
including self-control and self-
management.
“We focus on reading, writing
and arithmetic, but in most
instances we really don’t focus
on things like self-regulation,”
Morrison
said.
“They’re
supposedly learned on their own
or maybe not learned on their own
or they mature. But they really
don’t see them as the object of
instruction.”
The variability of self-regulation
can be seen across gender and
national origin. There are a group
of boys in the United States who
have been found to be lagging
behind developmentally in terms
of self-regulation. Morrison said
this was the group that we needed
to worry about.
Rackham
student
Sammy
Ahmed said these findings could
impact children both in school and
at home.
“There could be implications
for the timing and growth of these
skills,” Ahmed said. “Some of the
things that parents can do early on
before school even begins that can
give them an edge when they begin
school,”
The presentation focused on
how to help the students who
start school later, which is often
indicator of success in the future.
To find what students needed,
Morrison said, researchers needed
to examine what teachers were
already doing.
“What we found essentially
here is an example of how different
kids need different kinds of
instruction,” Morrison said.
Depending on ones’ IQ, students
either needed more teacher-led
instruction if they were on the
lower side of the spectrum, or
more personally driven activities if
students were on the higher side of
the spectrum.
To bring these findings
into practice, Carol Connor of
Arizona State University has
developed an algorithm-based
intervention
program
that
computes the attention and
activities each student needs.
“In essence, you have sub-
groups of kids (in a classroom),
somewhere
around
three
or four sub-groups, that are
clustered by their patterns of
scores and then the computer
program will actually generate
the exact amount and types
of instruction that that child
needs to get in order to be at
grade level,” Morrison said.
Ann Arbor resident Carlene
Colvin-Garcia said she hopes
that the findings discussed by
Morrison will be implemented
in the school systems.
“I’m really interested in
the emerging philosophy and
methodologies for education,”
Colvin-Garcia said.
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