Tag: methods
50 Classroom Assessment Techniques
As an educator, you need to be aware of what knowledge students are retaining from your lessons. The easiest way to do so is through a variety of assessment methods. These 50 Classroom Assessment Techniques by Angelo and Cross will get you on the right path, offering strategies for assessing course-related knowledge and skills, learner […]
Feb 20, 2018
Promoting Your Research: The Art of the Elevator Pitch
You’ve spent countless hours developing your research – now it’s time to share it with the world. However, it’s not quite that simple. How will you convey your huge scientific advances in a way that won’t put colleagues and peers to sleep? How will you entice others into reviewing the results of your laborious studies? […]
Oct 31, 2017
Teaching Tips: A Classic Collection
You may have a storied career as an educator, teaching for decades with a mountain of accolades across your shoulders. Or, you may be about to enter your first classroom in the role of a teacher. Regardless of whether you are one, the other, or something in between, these teaching tips have helped countless educators […]
Nov 22, 2016
Observations and interviews (qualitative data) and traditional surveys (quantitative data) are foundational to research in the health professions and higher education. Mixed methods research focuses on how data from both qualitative and quantitative methods can offer richer information by together informing, developing, and investigating a research theory. Watch Part 1 and Part 2 of this […]
Oct 8, 2015
Eric Mazur: Confessions of a Converted Lecturer
“I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material?“ As Eric Mazur describes, it was neither. The problem was in his own teaching method. See how he came to this conclusion and how […]
Nov 11, 2009