Posts Tagged ‘study strategies’

Exam Wrappers

Posted Thursday, July 29th, 2010 by Maryellen Weimer

Here’s a strategy that helps students look at more than the grade when an exam is returned. An exam wrapper (I like the name) is a handout attached to the exam that students complete as part of the exam debrief process. The wrapper directs students “to review and analyze their performance (and the instructor’s feedback) [...]

The Study Strategies that Work in Your Field

Posted Thursday, January 14th, 2010 by Maryellen Weimer

There’s a piece coming out in the February issue of the newsletter that highlights content from an article written by a political scientist who teaches quantitative content to math averse students. It’s a very pratical piece but also a great model—of pedagogical scholarship and of something we should all consider doing.
The author’s basic premise [...]