Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Drawing on our own positive educational experiences, our goal is to create a space where PSTs feel they can ask questions and seek support (math-related or otherwise) as they begin their journey through teacher education. Cultivate dynamic spaces where PSTs can ask questions and seek help. makes PSTs the expert in the room.

Math 124

Math Teaching Teachers Instructors 124

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Integrative questionnaire design: In delivering a social research methods module, a shared questionnaire document could be an active boundary object. This research tool can be modified so the questions are about specific events or activities within a course or module, and the answers on these themes are scaled.

Research Methods 111

Research Methods Learning Study Social Studies 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2023

Understanding Citizen Science Citizen science or community science entails the collaboration between scientists and public volunteers in carrying out key tasks such as experiments, data collection, and answering real-world questions. This led to the creation of a funding-based scientific approach that we witness today.

Science 144

Science Participation Laboratory Interdisciplinary 144

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ChatGPT’s emergence and subsequent evolution as a generative artificial intelligence tool introduces new ways of assisting students with research design. as a tool in research project supervision. I also discuss how to instruct students to include ChatGPT in their research methodology when using the tool to refine research questions.

Ethics 109

Ethics Intelligence Feedback Languages 109

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing.

Exams 110

Exams Testing Disabilities Learning 110

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Mathematica , a policy research organization, designs and executes large- and small-scale studies that address policy questions across program areas, research methods and locations.

Coaching 66

Coaching Research Methods Evaluation Feedback 66

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Drawing on our own positive educational experiences, our goal is to create a space where PSTs feel they can ask questions and seek support (math-related or otherwise) as they begin their journey through teacher education. Cultivate dynamic spaces where PSTs can ask questions and seek help. makes PSTs the expert in the room.

Math 97

Math Teaching Teachers Instructors 97

Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

The question is, how do we develop those skillsets in and among our students? PhotoVoice is a visual method used to understand the world through the eyes of those experiencing it. When I sit in advisory board meetings, what I hear from employers is they want students who can lead and serve.

Technology 122

Technology Art Learning Students 122

Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2024

Those negative attitudes about groups lead to a larger question: Can students still learn even if they don’t like the instructional approach, activity, or assignment? Students—not all, but many—like easy assignments, courses that aren’t all that demanding, and test questions requiring memorized minutiae. is both no and yes” (p.

Group work 64

Group work Instructors Students Research Methods 64

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. One challenge of this question is that it requires students to have some knowledge of different political perspectives on the topic.

Teaching 130

Teaching Evaluation Discussions Plagiarism 130

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

My informal research methods included collecting self-perception data from students on what they found most helpful for staying engaged. The overarching result that emerged from my personal experimentation and research was determining a framework of six categories to cultivate a student’s attention.

Attention 122

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 122

Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

The question is, how do we develop those skillsets in and among our students? PhotoVoice is a visual method used to understand the world through the eyes of those experiencing it. When I sit in advisory board meetings, what I hear from employers is they want students who can lead and serve.

Technology 97

Technology Art Learning Students 97

Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2024

Those negative attitudes about groups lead to a larger question: Can students still learn even if they don’t like the instructional approach, activity, or assignment? Students—not all, but many—like easy assignments, courses that aren’t all that demanding, and test questions requiring memorized minutiae. is both no and yes” (p.

Group work 59

Group work Instructors Students Research Methods 59

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

My informal research methods included collecting self-perception data from students on what they found most helpful for staying engaged. The overarching result that emerged from my personal experimentation and research was determining a framework of six categories to cultivate a student’s attention.

Attention 111

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. One challenge of this question is that it requires students to have some knowledge of different political perspectives on the topic.

Teaching 111

Teaching Evaluation Discussions Plagiarism 111

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Keywords: Teaching Methods, Pedagogy, Student Learning Introduction Staring out to the sea of questioning faces, I paused and asked the question again still no response from the 22 students staring back at me. My students seemed to either not understand my question or have difficulty with the content.

Teaching 52

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Problem-Based Learning 52

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I was in the first year of the top doctorate program in my field, and we were 20 educators-in-training being taught best practices of various communication research methods by supposed leading experts. This manifests particularly in what many perceive as an innocuous question: “Where are you from?” Wait, what?

Education 164

Education Schools Questions Culture 164

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Bear all this in mind as you consider the following question: What if there were a job-skills machine? Even if everyone could agree on the answers to those questions, would we be able to create a shared language for describing all these skills, so that workers, bosses and educators really understood each other? Like the steam engine.

Skills 181

Skills Intelligence Syllabus Languages 181

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

The public sabbatical, the one that I proposed to my university and to Steelcase, centers around being on-site at Steelcase headquarters in Grand Rapids, conducting research on active learning and active learning classrooms and communicating that research to Steelcase audiences and customers.

Learning 114

Learning Culture Research Methods Learning Spaces 114