Evidence that Class Participation Affects Student Outcomes
Imagine a world where you had infinite access to every keystroke and click your students use related to your course. How would that help you? How would you use that information to guide the student?...
View ArticleBanning Laptops in Class is the Wrong Answer
Recent articles by Valerie Strauss (@valeriestrauss) in the Washington Post and Dan Rockwell (@Leadershipfreak) in the New Yorker pander to the insecurities of college instructors and ignore research...
View ArticleIF Incoming GPA Predicts Student Grades What’s My Role?
Student Grades are Related to a Student’s GPA Student grades are often strongly related to a student’s prior success as measured by incoming GPA. Is this because these students lack cognitive ability...
View ArticleLarge Courses Create an Uneven Playing Field
Opening day! First class of the year! For many of us this is a time to redesign our lectures with an eye to improving how we present our material. But lost in our efforts to develop the clearest...
View ArticleLarge Courses Create an Uneven Playing Field
Opening day! First class of the year! For many of us this is a time to redesign our lectures with an eye to improving how we present our material. But lost in our efforts to develop the clearest...
View ArticleBanning Laptops in Class is the Wrong Answer
Recent articles by Valerie Strauss (@valeriestrauss) in the Washington Post and Dan Rockwell (@Leadershipfreak) in the New Yorker pander to the insecurities of college instructors and ignore research...
View ArticleTaking the Virtual Temperature of Class
One strategy I’ve been using is to include a mechanism for students to share how they’re doing physically and emotionally. I started this long before the coronavirus by asking an image-based question...
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