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What Student Assignments and Projects Are Considered Most Difficult: Myths and Truths

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Multidisciplinary Assignments Connecting the dots. Multidisciplinary tasks that merge concepts from various subjects can be complex. Q: What’s the benefit of multidisciplinary assignments? However, they encourage you to think critically and make connections across different disciplines.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

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Sources of students’ anxiety in a multidisciplinary social statistics course. We tend to forget that students don’t yet have firsthand hand knowledge of what they’ll need to know and be able to do as professionals. References: Condron, D. Becker, J. and Bzhetaj, L. Teaching Sociology, 46 (4), 346-355. Bailey, M.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

Sources of students’ anxiety in a multidisciplinary social statistics course. We tend to forget that students don’t yet have firsthand hand knowledge of what they’ll need to know and be able to do as professionals. References: Condron, D. Becker, J. and Bzhetaj, L. Teaching Sociology, 46 (4), 346-355. Bailey, M.

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