When students are asked to remember and explain relevant knowledge just before applying it, they arrive at a more concrete ...

A central assumption that I make about student engagement is that students have to find value in the course assignments in order to become engaged in the course. Without understanding that value, the ...

Writing is a valuable educational tool for learning. In the classroom, writing can help students grapple with and understand content more deeply and help students learn disciplinary ways of knowing ...

The Common Core State Standards’ final draft settled upon this phrase: “Scaffolding, as needed.” How best can a teacher gauge students’ “need” when dealing with complex text? Part One featured ...

Travis Grandy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Find him on Twitter @travisgrandy or at his website. I work with a lot of instructors who use ...

Teachers who spend time actually thinking through assignments that align with the learning outcomes of a course are the most effective at assessing the learning that has taken place. Now, however, ...

Learn about designing effective assessment tasks to promote deeper learning, increase students’ motivation and engagement, and allow all students to demonstrate their learning. breaking down a large, ...

Assignments: Make Them Effective, Engaging, and Equitable. At their best, assignments are one of the most important learning experiences for students in a course. Students grapple with course content, ...

UB undergraduate engineering students are learning to solve complex, open-ended engineering problems as part of their required coursework. One goal of assigning these types of problems is to better ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. But this advice is largely about knowledge transmission. It’s not about student engagement and ...

A psychology instructor modifies a case study assignment for an Abnormal Psychology undergraduate course to enhance use of data and identification of multiple sides of an issue. Abnormal Psychology ...