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For decades, Student Evaluations of Instruction (or Teaching) have been used to evaluate the quality of teaching at universities and colleges nationwide. Often, student evaluations…
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Current higher education professional teaching positions in a formal classroom setting almost invariably require use of a system of grading. Most instructors assign variations on…
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This article discusses use of a 3-part set of questions to foster student buy-in for a newly-designed active learning methodology in an introductory geology course at a southwestern…
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Students in an introductory biology course who were given open-book exams during the semester earned significantly higher grades on these exams, but significantly lower grades on the…
S. Becker, S. Kuchemann, P. Klein, A. Lichtenberger, and J. Kuhn, Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 18 (2), 020107 (2022).
Eye tracking enables the reconstruction of eye movements and thus the analysis of visual information selection and integration processes during problem solving. In this way,…