A radical rethinking of undergraduate learning. Quantitative Story Telling with Shiny: Gender Bias in Syllabi. Women are underrepresented in economics textbooks, says a new analysis, with implications for the field's gender imbalance. Scientific Reasoning MCAT Modules for Large Intro Psych Courses. <div class="noscript-warning"> JavaScript is currently disabled in your browser.
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Retrieval Practice: The What, Why, and How for Classroom Instruction. Posted November 8, 2017 By Pooja K.
Agarwal, Ph.D. @PoojaAgarwal, @RetrieveLearn. Empowering Students to Bounce Back After Challenges. Posted November 2, 2017 By Corrie Harris and Abby Grammer Horton @cmharris76 & @acg_horton Exploring Issues of Student Resilience in Academia In response to surging numbers of students reporting and demonstrating difficulties with anxiety and other mental health concerns over the past several years, many college campuses have added and expanded resources designed to respond and proactively attend to student needs.
Is this the domain of Student Life or Student Health departments only? Thinking like a Psychological Scientist. Why are some people so much happier than others?
Is it harmful for children to have imaginary companions? How might students study more effectively? Even if you’ve never considered these questions before, you probably have some guesses about their answers. Maybe you think getting rich or falling in love leads to happiness. Perhaps you view imaginary friends as expressions of a dangerous lack of realism. A quick internet search would yield even more answers. In this module, you will learn about scientific thinking. Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research. Timeshighereducation. Understanding teachers' pedagogical knowledge - Périodiques. The Learning Scientists. No “far transfer” – chess, memory training and music just make you better at chess, memory training and music.
By Alex Fradera Learning to ride a BMX obviously helps you handle a racing bike. Why you’re more likely to remember something if you read it to yourself out loud. By guest blogger Bradley Busch Dr.
Seuss wrote “the more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go”. The trouble is, we forget so much of what we read. Project Syllabus. Project Syllabus Description These syllabi have been reviewed by faculty volunteers serving on the Project Syllabus team.
We make no claim that any of these syllabi are perfect; they are made available here as quality examples of syllabi that have undergone revision through the peer review process. The "Best Practices" category contains exemplary portions (Calendars, Course objectives, etc.) of various syllabi on this site. NeuroDojo: Grad student stops meeting supervisor, who doesn’t notice. Two years ago, Eleftherios Diamandis wrote a horrible piece in Science Careers that glorified overwork.
This was widely criticized. Twin study raises doubts about the relevance of "grit" to children’s school performance – Research Digest. Grit is in vogue.
US psychologist Angela Duckworth’s TED talk on grit is one of the most popular recorded. And her forthcoming book on the subject, subtitled “the power of passion and perseverance” is anticipated to be a bestseller. On both sides of the pond, our governments have made the training of grit in schools a priority. To psychologists, “grit” describes how much perseverance someone shows towards their long-term goals, and how much consistent passion they have for them. It’s seen as a “sub-trait” that’s very strongly related to, and largely subsumed by, conscientiousness, which is known as one of the well-established “Big Five” main personality traits that make up who we are. Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day - HBS Working Knowledge - Harvard Business School. Here’s a tip for parents of school-aged children.
If your kids must take a standardized test, it’s best to do so either first thing in the morning or right after recess. On average, students perform best on tests at the start of the school day. And for every hour later in the day, their tests scores decrease. Why? Because they suffer from cognitive fatigue. These are among the key findings of a new study, “Cognitive fatigue influences students’ performance on standardized tests.” Examiners give hugely different marks.
Study finds inconsistencies in grading for borderline 2:1 and 2:2 essays Source: Rex Grading gamble: the paper says marking is a ‘judgement, not a measurement’ Undergraduates awarded low scores for their work may receive top marks if they are graded by another academic, a study suggests.
As part of the study into inconsistent marking, 24 academics in four disciplines were recruited from 20 UK universities and each asked to mark five pieces of student work originally graded as borderline 2:1 or 2:2 by universities. But many of the academics – who had all worked as external examiners – ended up awarding hugely different marks, according to the study published in the journal Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. Some essays were given a first, while others received a third-class mark, says the study, which is titled “Let’s stop the pretence of consistent marking: exploring the multiple limitations of assessment criteria”. jack.grove@tesglobal.com.
Research Professional Sign-in. Shimer College: the worst school in America? In a classroom in Bronzeville, on Chicago’s South Side, eight students are locked in intense debate about Lawrence Kohlberg’s stages of moral development. They’re tearing Kohlberg apart, with justification, as far as I can tell, but keeping up with fast-paced Socratic dialogue about complicated philosophy is not my strong suit. I’m visiting this college, Shimer, because something quite calamitous has just happened to it.
The communications officer, Isabella Winkler, gives me a tour. Which lasts about three minutes. Shimer is tiny. So what’s it like, this worst college? The thing is, in the hours after the rankings were published in October, something unexpected happened. What is Shimer, I wondered, this barely heard-of college that’s so statistically terrible – the very zenith of terrible – and so loved? Dear Student: Should Your Granny Die Before The Midterm ... Every semester, on college campuses across America, there’s a rash of students who kill off their grandmothers right before a midterm paper or exam.
Some are serial murderers who repeatedly send their grannies into that long, dark night. No, students aren’t actually shanking their nanas over tea and wrapping the bodies in knitted afghans. But this crime, which veteran professors say has long been part of the folklore of teaching, is a real phenomenon. Seven 'great' teaching methods not backed up by evidence. What makes “great teaching”? It’s a complicated question, made more difficult by trying to measure how teachers make decisions in the classroom and what impact those decisions have on what pupils learn.
In a new report for the Sutton Trust, we have tried to set out how great teaching leads to great learning. Priced out of postgraduate education. Students who want to do master’s degrees are stymied by a lack of state finance. Paul Jump investigates how funding can be fixed Source: Miles Cole Of the 29,155 additional postgraduate starters at UK universities in 2007-08 compared with 2002-03, only 5,599 were home students. Finishing your PhD thesis: 15 top tips from those in the know.
QAA to investigate Saudi students’ exam resits. University of Bedfordshire accused of giving those sponsored by Saudi Arabian government preferential treatment. Professors’ Pet Peeves. I got this email from an Ivy League student when I arrived to give a speech. I Used to Be a Good Teacher. Original image: Norman Rockwell's "Happy Birthday, Miss Jones. " The Case for Conversational Writing. Only once have I ever played the “I’m an English professor” card with any of my kids’ teachers.
Students 'not prepared' for results day. Underemployed graduates ‘stay in stepping-stone jobs too long’ Study: Text messages about renewing aid boost 2-year college persistence @insidehighered. You'd think that those low-income college students who, despite the odds, applied for federal financial aid, enrolled in college, and had early academic success as freshmen would continue to do what's needed to persist in college. But while many of them do, almost 20 percent don't take what would seem to be a pretty basic step toward continued success: re-filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid for a second year.
"They may not know they have to renew, they're likely to be working and really busy, and at some many community colleges, particularly, they probably have fewer advising supports," said Ben Castleman, an assistant professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education. A virtual analysis. A new analysis of four blended-format courses taught last fall offers practical guidance for faculty members interested in fresh pedagogical approaches. The pilot study led by the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and released today after months of checks and balances showed that students responded most to lesson structure and execution, placed a premium on person-to-person interaction, and found redundancies between in-class and online instruction. Americans Think We Have the World’s Best Colleges. We Don’t.
Americans have a split vision of education. Why are male students at Oxford getting more firsts? Why are male students at Oxford getting more firsts? Truly ‘higher’ study demands critical thinking, not faking it. PowerPoint in higher education is ruining teaching. Teaching religion: my students are trying to run my course. Students who scoff at lowly cafe jobs are in for a shock. Teaching religion: my students are trying to run my course. Myths about how the brain works have no place in the classroom. The Shadow Scholar - The Chronicle Review. Cheating Goes High-Tech. Study finds that students learn more from non-tenure-track instructors. Gitate, don't regurgitate. Essay mills: university course work to order.
A MOOC Star Defects, at Least For Now - Technology. Earlier A-level exams proposed in university applications shakeup. Italian university switches to English. Howard Davies on French plans that could cost UK dear. Concord Review Showcases Student Writers. How to cut tuition fees. The five stages of grading. Skewed views of science. Oxford University settles 'selection by wealth' case. What Can We Do About Student E-mails? Better Colleges Failing to Lure Talented Poor. Are universities collecting too much information? Le comité de sélection comme cas d'étude. Universités : "les cours en anglais mènent à un enseignement au rabais" Mon Dieu! Researchers Fret as France Debates More English in French Universities. A-level problems - joel182's posterous. University application process penalises disadvantaged pupils, study finds.