Taking Risks in Your Teaching
Maryellen Weimer
March 1, 2014
Any instructional practice that is new to you, such as group testing, giving students a role in creating a classroom policy, or getting students involved
Any instructional practice that is new to you, such as group testing, giving students a role in creating a classroom policy, or getting students involved
It’s good to regularly review the advantages and disadvantages of the most commonly used test questions and the test banks that now frequently provide them.
As Ron Berk (known for his pithy humor) observes, the multiple-choice question “holds world records in the categories of most popular, most unpopular, most used,
I’ve been delving a bit into the emotional aspects of teaching. They continue to be largely ignored in the research literature and in our discussions
This weekend I saw a diagram with visual representations of teacher-centered instruction juxtaposed to graphics illustrating learner-centered approaches. I heard myself telling someone that I
The January 15 post on group testing generated a nice collection of comments, more interesting alternatives, and requests for references.
I’ve been doing some presentations on classroom interaction and thinking yet again about how we could do better with our questions—the ones we ask in
Empirical studies of various sorts have verified that cooperative learning events are related to higher academic achievement more so than are competitive, individualistic learning environments.
Edited by Victor A. Benassi, Catherine E. Overson, and Christopher M. HakalaThe book in a nutshell: The title makes the book sound a bit daunting,
Handing back graded work or posting grade results is not usually a favorite course event for teachers. There are always those students disappointed in their
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