
Student Engagement Is Not Student Learning
When my son was growing up, my wife and I bought memberships at the local science museum so we could take him there any time

When my son was growing up, my wife and I bought memberships at the local science museum so we could take him there any time

No faculty member sets out to be a bad teacher—at least I hope not—but there are bad (or ineffective) teachers. I’m sure some of these

Psychology programs at large, research-focused universities often ask me to provide an external evaluation for a faculty member on a teaching-track faculty who are being

Psychologists and educators have studied learning for well over 100 years, and we still don’t know the specific conditions that result in learning. If we

When I was in graduate school, I had to pass four written preliminary exams over various subject areas in psychology. Each exam was three hours

Like many college faculty, my first teaching experience was in graduate school. I was woefully unprepared to teach but blissfully ignorant of that fact. I

Teachers employ a vast array of instructional methods, but one universal element is the use of examples. No teaching approach eschews examples. On the contrary,