It makes more sense to focus on those teaching behaviors that help students learn, and that’s where the emphasis has been for many years. The
Pete Burkholder, a history professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, is writing a series of columns for a website on teaching US history. He doesn’t teach
Students have strong opinions about fair and unfair practices in college courses. Previous research shows that, according to students, fair practices include clarity about grading
Teachers and students can give each other priceless gifts. “Professor Jones changed my life!” The comment is usually followed by the story of a teacher
I continue to be a huge fan of personal narratives, those accounts of teaching experiences from which the author and the reader learn much. They’re
We already do give students some choices. We let them choose paper topics, decide what to do for group projects, select subjects for artwork—and we’ve
They’re questions that grew out of theology professor Barbara Blodgett’s move to a new grading system. They’re questions that poke at the premises beneath grading
It’s a choice Susan Taft gives her MBA students. The class can choose to take a written quiz at the beginning of every class session
Many students don’t do the reading before class. Most surveys report that less than 50 percent of students have read the assigned material before it’s
What is it? The amount of work it takes to do well in a course? The amount of time it takes to complete the work
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