Help your students bridge the gap between classroom theory and real-world practice by giving them ownership of the experience ...

STEM teachers can try this five-day project-based learning cycle to give students a meaningful experience on a short timeline ...

Creating clear pathways from higher education to careers is a focus for policymakers, university leaders and students themselves, but finding ways to deliver effective career preparation that connects ...

Many instructors experience disappointment when their students’ exam scores don’t live up to expectations. How is it possible, we ask ourselves, that so many students failed to grasp the concepts we ...

With a few instructional shifts, teachers can create classrooms that better encourage confidence and academic growth.

Ed tech company Swivl has introduced its latest tool, Mirror, which automates helping students develop higher order skills of thought and reflection about their learning and gives teachers insights ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

Reflection helped students think more carefully about individual mistakes. But it also reduced how many new problems they attempted and how many new mistakes they could learn from.