I’m going to take a blog break for the next couple of weeks. I’ll be back with more entries the first week in January. This blog is just about a year old—I’ve been enjoying doing the entries. Thanks for reading and thanks especially to those of you who’ve posted comments and sent [...]

We get a lot of submissions to the newsletter describing various and sundry games that faculty have devised to help students review, gain confidence in dealing with new vocabulary, apply material they have learned to different problems, and get involved and engaged with content. Some of the games follow popular TV shows like Jeopardy or [...]

Do students have the right to remain silent in class? I continue to struggle with that question. It definitely depends on the course. If you want to learn French, you really can’t do that without speaking. But what about history or environmental biology?
I was interested to read a qualitative research article that analyzes interviews with [...]

Jennifer Moore, an assistant professor of elementary education at a small teaching-focused university in Alabama had several “intellectual awakenings” when she recently took three graduate courses simultaneously. Her institution needed a reading specialist and she looked on taking the required courses as an opportunity. One of the three courses was offered online; the other two [...]

Social loafing is the research jargon for group members who don’t carry their weight—the free riders, the ones that hard-working group members hate and the ones that make faculty wonder if it’s ethically responsible to use group work.
Research reported recently in the Journal of Marketing Education (using a robust empirical design) identified three features of [...]

Cramming—now there’s a timely topic given the fast approaching end of fall courses. Do students cram for your exams? For the exams of your colleagues? In those bygone days, did you ever resort to cramming?
For the January issue of the newsletter I’m highlighting a fine piece of research on cramming. I wish I’d found the [...]