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Killing the Term Paper
Interesting post on the Chronicle today about whether or not research papers are worth assigning. I think a lot of the points are well taken, including the essential question of why we assign term papers beyond the fact that they … Continue reading
Connections Exercise
This is the last week of classes, and I’m trying to get students to think about how what has happened inside the classroom can be used to understand a world of which they remain mostly ignorant. So I’ve come up … Continue reading
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The Pedagogical Utility of Half Credit
I structure most of my courses around what I call reading responses — short writing assignments on journal articles that students complete outside of class. These assignments fulfill several objectives: Students read, think, and write outside of class, making them … Continue reading
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Using Rubrics As Teaching Tools
In the early years of my teaching career, I adopted rubrics to speed up grading of student writing, but I’d see the same mistakes, from the same students, on paper after paper throughout the semester. The content of the rubric … Continue reading
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More on Solving the Reading Problem
Many of us are familiar with the think-pair-share exercise in which a class is given a question and, after a short period of time to think about it, students pair up to discuss their answers. Two downsides to think-pair-share: students … Continue reading
