March 24, 2009
I’m reading an excellent book right now, What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain. Though it’s research-based, it’s actually an easy read and chock full of ideas for instructors. In the chapter on evaluating students, he makes a number of thought-provoking points:
Assigning student grades should be about helping students learn, but often has [...]
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February 2, 2009
Professor Michael Wesch, of Kansas State University, recently described how his students distributed the tasks of finding and reviewing articles, and then sharing their summaries so that in effect, all students were aware of the content of all articles summarized.
The key:
All summaries were due 36 hours before the next class period, leaving those final 36 hours for [...]
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