Content tagged: student response
Can Clickers Enhance Student Learning?
Article: Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Dr. Peter M. Saunders, director of Oregon State University’s Center for Teaching and Learning, has heard the horror stories, and understands why faculty were hesitant to use clickers in the ... Read full story »
Student Recommendations for Encouraging Participation
Article: Friday, September 25th, 2009
Getting students to participate in class is one of those perplexing instructional problems we all face, particularly when teaching undergraduate classes. Are there significant differences in the graduate classroom? A ... Read full story »
How to Make Course Evaluations More Valuable
Article: Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
The major benefit any conscientious professor seeks in course evaluations is in gaining useful student feedback. Yet most rating instruments generate vague, unjustified student comments. Quantitative scales provide ambiguous statistics ... Read full story »
The Power of Putting the Students at the Center of Learning
Article: Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
As an instructor at a career-focused university, I thought I had experienced it all: great classes and bad classes, classes that ran smoothly and those that required firm management, classes ... Read full story »
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