Recently added articles from College Teaching:
Struggling with self-study: schematic dissonance and knowledge construction.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Abstract. Through interviews with twenty-nine students who completed an educational psychology class that required self-study, the author investigates the relation between the amount of dissonance students experienced between their schemas for learning and the type of learning required by ...
Improving student teamwork in a collaborative project-based course.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Abstract. While collaborative student projects can be effective in improving student learning, the failure of students to work together effectively remains a widely reported problem in collaborative learning. This article describes a team-building intervention designed to improve the ...
Classroom debate format: effect on student learning and revelations about student tendencies.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Abstract. To assess the effect of debate format on learning, four formats were separately employed in an environmental issues course. Learning was greatest when students wrote about a debate they witnessed, the teacher provided debate questions, and students received a reward for winning ....
Leveraging summative assessment for formative purposes.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Abstract. The problem of motivation has received a great deal of attention, and many successful approaches have been developed. However, in areas such as introductory college mathematics, students often question their own potential for success. At the first sign of trouble, their fears are ...
How many tests do we really need?(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Abstract. Through a review of the literature on the test-frequency effect, we identified several underlying factors that may determine student learning outcome beyond the number of tests administered in a course. A realignment of the conceptual framework of the test-frequency effect with ...