Students often enter undergraduate research-based courses feeling academically underprepared and/or intimidated by the task of understanding and presenting research to their peers and professionals. The courses that focus on research…
…to convey to students, don’t use just one channel of communication, use multiple. For example, instead of simply posting information only in the announcements area, or only in the feedback…
…want to consider the following best practices: Limit the number of clicker questions to five per class Use PowerPoint to prepare, manage, and display questions Reserve questions for specific learning…
…me to realize how poorly we teachers adopt this stance in our classrooms. Perhaps my students were faltering because they’re not seeing teachers building on student comments. Asking teacher questions. When…
…ask their own questions to help build their online relationships. Have each student create their own blog and let them post their thoughts based on the questions you ask. This…
…questions in my feedback to the students. They were questions that responded to the lack of metacognitive awareness I was seeing in those entries. As a result of that experience,…
…pebble in their shoe. Linda Suskie, a vice president of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and author of Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide, sees a better…
…the necessary skills to fully comprehend the material. As a result, instructors may subtly or unwittingly communicate that reading the textbook is not necessary in order to pass a course….
