…not only supports their view, but also incorporates opposing viewpoints. Students learn to search and evaluate peer-reviewed academic articles to support their observations, as they are required to incorporate at…
…Classroom: Teaching to Close the Graduation Gap for Minority, First-Generation, and Academically Unprepared Students, released earlier this month. While recognizing that there are no easy answers, I offer ideas that…
…Cummins model focused on the following four needs of ELL students: language, culture, academic, and personal, which provides a conceptual framework for this article (Amaro et al., 2006; Yoder, 1996)….
…cannot recover academically and should drop the course. A lot of us use policies that significantly reduce the overall course grade for excessive absences, hoping that approach will provide the…
…us (since at least the 1990s, if not before) that they have stopped using grades all together, that’s not only bending the rules of the academic riddle-making game, it’s revolutionary….
…theories, models, or concepts and relevant topical background to demonstrate scope of knowledge of the topic (Torpey & Terrell, 2015). A doctoral dissertation adds to the academic body of knowledge,…
…priority to the visitor’s first glance. Good exhibits offer a striking first impression and attract visitors from afar to come closer (not unlike an academic poster session). These first impressions…
…academic articles, not due to lack of effort. In this case, merely telling them that their account is wrong is unhelpful. They need to learn how to read academic work….
