Right before the end of the academic year when the promise of summer stretches warmly ahead, many of us are making lists that anticipate other
There hasn’t been a lot written recently about test anxiety, but that doesn’t mean it’s no longer an issue for a significant number of students.
When teachers tell me about some new strategy or approach they’ve implemented, I usually ask how they found out about it and almost always get
It’s a feedback mechanism that’s been around for some time. Most often used during a course, students are asked to fold a sheet of paper
Donald R. Bacon, editor of the Journal of Marketing Education and notable pedagogical scholar, points out in the journal’s Editor’s Corner that perceived learning and
The process of making instructional changes has not been studied much at all—perhaps because it seems like a simple process. We discover a new idea,
Some professions offer a greater sense of closure than teaching. Take plumbing, for example. Plumbing problems are hard to miss and not always easy to
Like a lot of terms in higher education, low-stakes grading doesn’t always refer to the same thing. In some cases it means small assignments that
Students can disrupt a class—most of us have experienced that firsthand—but so can teachers. Teacher misbehaviors can also be disruptive. They can get in the
The following conceptions of feedback were offered by a group of students studying to become physical therapists. They were asked to recall a situation during
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