…is certainly possible for presentation skills to compromise the integrity of the educational endeavor. I believe that occurs whenever what happens in a course is more about teaching than learning—performance…
…a student, using the types of exam questions and rubrics that I experienced. The newsletter provided a much larger voice that mentored my development as a teacher. I had a…
…the online course, to be completed on the first day, is this required check-in quiz. In St Clair’s case, it meets the university’s first-day attendance requirement. Students can be dropped…
…student wants to take the exam at a later date so he can attend Grandma’s 90th birthday celebration, or if the objection to phone usage during class is answered with,…
…can’t, according to recent neuroscience research. It was previously thought that emotion and cognition activated separate areas of the brain, but recent findings show that multiple areas involved in emotional…
…and course exams, and they receive lower course grades overall. Having assembled a large collection of research data, I’ve been working to create a resource that faculty could share with…
…of these challenging students, each one a unique individual, but many displaying the same counterproductive attitudes and actions. Descriptions of these students come much more easily than solutions to what’s…
The most common approach to cheating involves trying to prevent it—multiple versions of a test, roving observation during tests, software that detects plagiarism, policies that prohibit it. However, if we…
