Posts Tagged ‘assignment strategies’

Less Stress at the Semester’s End

Posted Thursday, September 9th, 2010 by Maryellen Weimer

There is no question that many students experience pretty serious burnout by the end of the semester. It’s easy for us to recognize it because we experience it ourselves. Even so, I have to admit I was surprised by the findings of a survey of one cohort of business majors.

Replacing Lab Reports

Posted Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 by Maryellen Weimer

When I took an ungraduate chemistry course a few years back, I loved lab, but I have to admit writing up the lab reports seemed like so much busy work. Each report had specified sections, and the lab manual offered advice on what to put in the sections, depending on the experiment. I remember trying [...]