assigned reading

Why Students Won’t Read—and What to Do about It

Chris Hakala August 15, 2022

One of the most frustrating things that can happen in higher education is that we assign students a reading that is really interesting and important for an upcoming class discussion. We then go on to design the day’s activities around the reading so that students

Want Students to Do the Reading? Assign Tasks, Not Texts

Norman Eng May 2, 2022

A lot of professors assign readings as follows: students read a piece of text, respond to it in some way, and come prepared to discuss it in class. Yet over half of students don’t do the assigned readings, and often it’s because professors assign too

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Why Students Won’t Read—and What to Do about It

Want Students to Do the Reading? Assign Tasks, Not Texts

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