With each semester’s end comes the often-dreaded course evaluation process. Will the students be gentle and offer constructive criticism, or will their comments be harsh and punitive? What do students…
…not come as a surprise. An exam with questions on current and previous content encourages continued interaction with course material, and the more students deal with the content, the better…
…Video, 20:03. https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_the_power_of_vulnerability?language=en Ellis, William. “It’s compassion, not capitulation, to ask less of students amid disruption.” Inside Higher Ed. August 19, 2020. https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/08/19/it%E2%80%99s-compassion-not-capitulation-ask-less-students-amid-disruption-opinion Kara, Mehmet. (2021). “Revisiting online learner engagement:…
…lessons and assignments that students feel are beneficial. Surveys may be formal with specific questions answered on a Likert scale or it may ask open-ended questions which allow students to…
…to measure a student’s brief composition of facts, concepts, and attitudes in a paragraph or less. The University of Wisconsin Teaching Academy calls short answer questions “constructed response”, or “open-ended…
As a new faculty member, late work was the cause of many headaches. I wanted a policy that would recognize there may be valid reasons why a student might not…
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…of daily decisions about what to teach. Unfortunately, many faculty still do not include diversity-related materials in their courses. One study of faculty at Research I institutions (cited in the…
