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What the F? Grading strategies for early career teachers

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Having a philosophical basis for grading helps instructors explain grades, their meaning, and their value to students, who may then see the grade as less arbitrary.Two common approaches to further mitigate this arbitrary nature include normative-based grading and criterion- or standards-based grading.

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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

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The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement. Failure could mean potential biologists, mathematicians or engineers being pushed out of the field.

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Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work? A New Analysis Dives Into the Research

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Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Finally, instructors assess the student work and give feedback. “I

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University of Michigan Turns Courses Into Games

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Students earn points by completing a much wider variety of assignment and assessment pathways than what is typically seen in most higher education courses today. Students also have autonomy to choose what they want to do within that wide variety of assignments and assessments. We don’t want you to be a failure.

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As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

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Many instructors describe accommodations they’ve tried, like loosening homework deadlines or offering asynchronous alternatives to class conversations, but some now wonder whether this kind of leniency actually makes the situation worse. In their anecdotes, fewer students are showing up to class and turning work in on time (or at all).

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How to Engage Your Students With the 12-Minute Rule and Quizzes They’re Meant to Fail

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But failure is the whole point of the exercise. Branch is known for his logical, easy-to-grasp course design, for his engaging assignments like The Armchair Anthropologist, and for the way his classes seem to fly by—which doesn’t happen by accident. Tell me about your Armchair Anthropologist assignment. Source: Course Hero.

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When Colleges Sign ‘Inclusive Access’ Textbook Deals, Can Students and Professors Opt Out?

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Failure to achieve those rates could have led to price increases on course materials. McGraw-Hill and Pearon emphasized that instructors retain the freedom to decide whether to assign bundled materials to students in their classes, and those students can then choose whether to opt out. “At PIRG and author of the report.

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