To say that technology has increased multitasking qualifies as a classic understatement. People walk and text, they talk and check Facebook, they shop during lunch,
“Even with years of teaching experience since then [grad school TA experience], there were still areas of my pedagogy that remained as they always had
An article in a recent issue of the International Journal of STEM Education has got me thinking about study habits and how little we know
Last post on entitlement (I promise, at least for a while), but Dave Porter’s comment to the recent post on responding to entitlement identified something
How do students think about assignments? A lot never get past the idea that they’re basically unpleasant things faculty make them do. What does interest
Students regularly talk to one another about homework and course assignments. They discuss what they think the teacher wants, offer advice about what to study,
“This is not a C paper!” “This answer deserves more points.” “Half of my work on this problem is correct, but I got less than
A recent issue of the journal Issues in Accounting Education published teaching statements written by the 2016 winners of the Cook Prize, a national prize
It’s one of the questions always asked by faculty using group work. Sometimes students tell the teacher they want to form their own groups. Teachers
When faculty consider adopting a new instructional approach, there’s always a question about how it will be received by students. Will they engage with it
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