The June-July issue of The Teaching Professor newsletter highlights a study you don’t want to miss. It’s a meta-analysis of 225 studies that compare STEM classes taught using various active…
…psychology faculty member at Central New Mexico Community College, mindfulness “can improve mental focus and academic performance.” In Everybody Present: Mindfulness in the Classroom, Roush explains, “Mindfulness mysteriously seems to…
…(four or five members) and gave each group two weeks to complete an open-book, take-home exam. “The group learning exam questions were specifically designed to focus on higher-order cognitive skills.”…
…the online classroom: Communicate frequently. One of the big challenges of teaching online is communication. The online learning environment lacks the visual and auditory cues that instructors and students often…
…time, I saw a list of the 10 courses most often taken by beginning students at my R1 university. Only two—English composition and physical education—enrolled fewer than 30 students, and…
…on this assignment.” It’s one of those comments teachers don’t like to hear from students, and rubrics, checklists, or the grading criteria offer constructive ways to respond. They identify those…
…most difficult exam and thus the best test of student competence. Consequently, if students achieved their strongest performance on the hardest test, surely that was the optimal measure of their…
…emerge out of doing what comes naturally, but will it be one that motivates and supports student learning? The classroom is not the family dinner table where “doing what comes…
