14th Annual Faculty Center Conference--In Person

Strategies for Effective Learning: The Science of Teaching and Learning
Friday, February 28, 2025, 9:30am-3:00pm

This event will be held in person in the Campus Center. More information will be available soon. 

If you are interested in presenting at the conference please submit a brief description of what you would like to discuss at the link below.

2025 Conference Presenter Form

Registration Form

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Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Jennifer McCabe

Keynote: “SET” for Success: Core Strategies for Effective Learning in a Metacognitive Framework

Dr. McCabe will share her recent research on three core learning strategies – Spacing, Elaboration, and Testing (“SET”) – in the context of her own teaching experiences and contemporary metacognitive and socio-emotional frameworks for learning.

Dr. Jennifer McCabe is the Psychology Department Chair and Elizabeth Conolly Todd ’21 Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. She completed her B.A. in Psychology from McDaniel College and her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She teaches introductory courses along with middle- and upper-level courses in human cognition. In her 21-year career at liberal arts colleges, Dr. McCabe has earned several teaching-focused awards, including most recently the Caroline Doebler Bruckerl ’25 Award for outstanding faculty achievement in teaching, research, and service. 

Dr. McCabe’s research interests include memory strategies, metacognition, and applications of memory theories to teaching and learning in higher education. She has published her work in journals, including Memory & Cognition, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, and Teaching of Psychology. Recently, she gave an invited talk for the APA’s Introductory Psychology Initiative Course Design Institute and published an invited chapter for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP)’s e-book on translating the science of learning for non-expert audiences. Dr. McCabe is an Associate Editor for the Teaching of Psychology journal, and a Fellow in the Psychonomic Society and the Eastern Psychological Association.


 

 

Jennifer McCabe

Workshop: 

Dr. Jennifer McCabe

Workshop: Get “SET” for Success in Our Classrooms: Small Changes, Big Impact

Bring your syllabi and course materials to this workshop. We will discuss how we can increase effective learning through small-scale adjustments in course design based on the “SET” strategies and the consideration of critical factors such as metacognition, teacher trust, and sense of belonging.

 

Afternoon: Lightning Sessions

FSC Faculty
Farmingdale State College

These lightning sessions are 15 minute presentations, with 10 minutes of Q and A from faculty at FSC presenting on how they are using the Science of Teaching and Learning in their classes. 

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Agenda

 

For more information please contact:

Jennifer Jaiswal
Director of the Faculty Center
(934)420-5775
Jennifer Jaiswal

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