Transforming Quizzes into Useful Tools

Quizzes provide both students and teachers with a snapshot of student learning. But students often just look at the grade rather than think about the learning that it represents and…

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How to Make Your Feedback More Effective

A common faculty complaint is that students do not read their feedback. This is usually chalked up to laziness or disinterest in learning. But neither explanation has ever rung true…

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Probing Student Understanding

It’s hard to determine just how well students understand the concepts we teach. Our usual criterion for understanding is that students give a correct answer on an exam, but that…

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