Wrap it Up All too often, students take an exam or complete a project, check their scores, and then start forgetting the material. The class moves forward, but students who haven’t yet mastered the important concepts rarely go back to identify their weaknesses, and end up building on increasingly shaky foundations. Students will perform better […]

Timely Feedback from Students If you think about teaching as a puzzle, or a series of problems to solve, you’ll never grow bored: no class of students is ever exactly like the last one, and there’s always something to improve, a new idea to incorporate, or an unexpected complication to address as we’re designing learning […]

Feedback, Early and Often How are your classes going so far? Are your students on track? By this point in the semester, students need some feedback on their progress. They, and we, need to know whether they’re learning what we want them to learn, so we can figure out what to adjust and they can […]

And Learning About Learning Few undergraduates arrive at the university with a sophisticated portfolio of study strategies. Students may think learning mostly means memorizing, so they will spend hours going over notes and re-reading (or highlighting every line of) their books. Before they arrive in our classrooms, many of our students have had only limited […]