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Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom

View ORCID ProfileLouis Deslauriers, View ORCID ProfileLogan S. McCarty, Kelly Miller, Kristina Callaghan, and Greg Kestin
PNAS first published September 4, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1821936116
Louis Deslauriers
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Logan S. McCarty
aDepartment of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138;bDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138;
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Kelly Miller
cSchool of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Kristina Callaghan
aDepartment of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138;
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