The Higher Learning Commission (UW’s accrediting body) offers this definition of assessment: “Effective assessment is best understood as a strategy for understanding, confirming, and improving student ...

A May 2024 Student Voice survey by Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab found two in five students believe encouraging faculty to better help connect learning outcomes to issues outside the classroom ...

Engage students curiosity through authentic and relevant content and help them develop the specific skills integral to good studentship. Organize your class to teach these skills. For example, while ...

Oregon State University’s Learning Innovation Center (LINC), a four-story classroom building, opened its doors in fall 2015. The shared campus classroom seats 2,300 students across 15 general-use ...

Editor’s Note: In today’s education reform landscape, there is an emphasis on learning from what’s happening in other countries. However, as David Andrew Tow, English and Social Science teacher at ...

A panel of experts told EdSource on Tuesday that for English language learners, it’s important to balance phonics and other reading skills all students need with opportunities to grow students’ ...

Editor’s Intro: Nathan Lutz, Primary School French Teacher and Global Learning Coordinator at Kent Place School in Summit, NJ and President of the National Network for Early Language Learning, shares ...

Instructors should take the time to ask themselves what they can do differently when students struggle on an assignment. If there are pain points in the courses they are teaching, and students ...

Educational Technology Research and Development, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Feb., 2007), pp. 27-50 (24 pages) Current teaching and learning methods reveal marked differences between how students approach ...

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