Replacing Lab Reports
When I took an ungraduate chemistry course a few years back, I loved lab, but I have to admit writing up the lab reports seemed like so much busy work. Each report had specified sections, and the lab...
View ArticleLess Stress at the Semester’s End
There is no question that many students experience pretty serious burnout by the end of the semester. It’s easy for us to recognize it because we experience it ourselves. Even so, I have to admit I was...
View ArticleAssignment Details: What if You Provide Too Many?
In an era of hyper-focus on students’ academic performance, is it possible that schoolwork is actually too easy? I recognize that this might seem a strange question, given how much we hear of...
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Previews, Reviews, and Summaries
Do these learning devices deserve a bigger space in our instructional tool boxes? They’re sort of taken-for-granted aspects of teaching and learning. We know where they belong: at the end or beginning...
View ArticleA Template for Assignment Development and Clarity
For our next installment in this series on assignments, we’d like to share an assignment template that we think can be helpful to teachers and students. Let’s start with how it can help teachers. It’s...
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Low-Stakes Assignments: Challenges and Opportunities
Low-stakes assignments include work we have students do that doesn’t count for a large part of the course grade. There’s a strong set of reasons to use these kinds of assignments, but also some...
View ArticleAssignment Prompts: A Tutor’s Perspective
Nothing has informed my teaching practice as much as serving as a writing tutor for high school and college students. It has been sobering to see, through their eyes, how unclear our assignments can...
View ArticleAfterthoughts: An Assignment that Gets Students Thinking
Our March installment in the collection of materials on assignments included an assignment template we proposed could be used as part of the assignment design process. We used the template to describe...
View ArticleLearning Logs
We’ve chosen to finish up our series on assignments with information on learning logs. Like the innovative and interesting assignments we plan to continue highlighting, learning logs are versatile and...
View ArticleMissed Deadlines and Due Dates
Some students are habitual offenders while others never miss a deadline. So, what’s the best way to deal with late assignments, missed exams, and other deadline delinquencies? A tough hardnosed policy...
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Choose Your Own Adventure: An Innovative Assignment for Nursing Students
The Choose Your Own Nursing Adventure was created from an interest to see how technology could be integrated into the traditional case study approach to enhance student engagement. The approach is...
View ArticleTeaching the How: Three Ways to Support Failure
I give students in my literature courses a lot of weird assignments: I have them make and post films about why people should read Dickens. I tell them these films should show careful analysis of the...
View ArticleAssignment Details: What if You Provide Too Many?
In an era of hyper-focus on students’ academic performance, is it possible that schoolwork is actually too easy? I recognize that this might seem a strange question, given how much we hear of...
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Previews, Reviews, and Summaries
Do these learning devices deserve a bigger space in our instructional tool boxes? They’re sort of taken-for-granted aspects of teaching and learning. We know where they belong: at the end or beginning...
View ArticleA Template for Assignment Development and Clarity
For our next installment in this series on assignments, we’d like to share an assignment template that we think can be helpful to teachers and students. Let’s start with how it can help teachers. It’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Low-Stakes Assignments: Challenges and Opportunities
Low-stakes assignments include work we have students do that doesn’t count for a large part of the course grade. There’s a strong set of reasons to use these kinds of assignments, but also some...
View ArticleAssignment Prompts: A Tutor’s Perspective
Nothing has informed my teaching practice as much as serving as a writing tutor for high school and college students. It has been sobering to see, through their eyes, how unclear our assignments can...
View ArticleAfterthoughts: An Assignment that Gets Students Thinking
Our March installment in the collection of materials on assignments included an assignment template we proposed could be used as part of the assignment design process. We used the template to describe...
View ArticleLearning Logs
We’ve chosen to finish up our series on assignments with information on learning logs. Like the innovative and interesting assignments we plan to continue highlighting, learning logs are versatile and...
View ArticleMissed Deadlines and Due Dates
Some students are habitual offenders while others never miss a deadline. So, what’s the best way to deal with late assignments, missed exams, and other deadline delinquencies? A tough hardnosed policy...
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