Can Clickers Enhance Student Learning?
…want to consider the following best practices: Limit the number of clicker questions to five per class Use PowerPoint to prepare, manage, and display questions Reserve questions for specific learning…
…want to consider the following best practices: Limit the number of clicker questions to five per class Use PowerPoint to prepare, manage, and display questions Reserve questions for specific learning…
…pose questions that review materials covered in the previous lecture. These questions are listed on PowerPoint, and I ask them at the beginning of class to remind everyone of the…
…sufficient detail. Communication breakdowns occur when important details are omitted or instructions are ambiguous. For example, when I once neglected to specify the font size students should use, the papers…
…the syllabus and review basic guidelines for the course. This year I decided to try a different approach, and the results were much more dramatic than I expected. I taught…
…asked at least one of the following questions from each category when exploring research interests in their psychology courses; the responses guided their course project. Discovery: What are your strengths?…
…small focus groups. We asked students three questions about what encouraged and discouraged them from seeking help from professors. Questions one and two solicited open-ended responses by asking student to…
…the way we design assignments. Take, for example, the traditional term paper, which often is assigned at the beginning of the course, worth a lot of credit, completed outside of…
…level of assessment items used on exams?” (p. 436) They collected sample syllabi from 50 faculty who taught 77 different introductory biology courses, about half of which were general biology…
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