In this educational assessment guide, we'll answer questions such as: What is the purpose of educational assessment?What are the benefits of assessments?What are the main types of assessment?What is the…
For decades, students have used highlighters to color-code notes and to indicate key passages of research sources, but there is another, less common but equally important, use for highlighters in…
When growing up in India throughout my childhood, my siblings and I were fortunate to have a study desk: A simple teakwood desk with a flap on the side to…
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on July 19, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. It is time to bid farewell to a career I have loved for so…
The capacity of instructors to inspire cultural awareness and cultural intelligence (CQ) in the classroom provides instructor effectiveness and engages students in the diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) narrative.…
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many of us were scrambling to figure out how to keep learning going. At the time, I was an associate professor in an undergraduate teacher…
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on February 12, 2018. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. I recently received a frantic phone call from a distraught colleague who had just received…
Have you ever made a professional decision and later realized it had negative unintended consequences for others on campus, be it your students or colleagues? Have you ever observed a…
My professional career centers around helping educators create engaging learning environments for their students. Often, that entails uncovering how best to use the available educational technologies. Over the course of…
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on July 19, 2017. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. As instructors, we learn a lot about our students by their physical presence in…