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Two Misconceptions about Group Work/Collaborative Learning
Matthew Cheung, Department of Mathematics There are two misconceptions about group work and collaborative learning that need to be addressed. Group Work and Collaborative Learning May Not Always be Ideal As a teaching assistant at UC Irvine, I question other...
The Case for Meta-Integration Collaborative Activities (MICAs)
Mayan K. Castro, M.A., Department of Psychological Science What is a MICA? This is a call for a new type of assignment: a Meta-Integration Collaborative Activity (MICA). The goal of a MICA is to present an explicit opportunity for students to connect the dots among...
An Assignment to Promote the Achievements of Diverse Scholars
Amanda R. Brown Tortorici, MS, RD, CSCS, PhD Candidate in Public Health Diversity in the 1980’s I remember being in elementary school in the late 80’s in suburban Pennsylvania, and I had a project to create a poster of female leaders of my choice. We were in the...
Why Group Work and Active Learning Help to Complement Professions in the “Real World”
Ian Baran, Department of Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy Whether the reality of all classes or not, we have our image of the prototypical classroom. Large or small, we visualize it similarly: students sitting, some visually engaged, others taking notes,...
Applications for the Academic Success Research (ASR) Fellows is open!
Are you interested in learning how your courses or programs are impacting undergraduate student success? Would access to certain data or assistance with analyses of these data help you answer those questions? For faculty interested in exploring these questions, the...
Food for Thought: Food and Community Building in the Classroom
Clare Gordon Bettencourt (@dearclare), Department of History “I didn’t realize how much I missed this food line!” Charlette Gregorian, Pedagogical Fellow 2019 Following two days of facilitating the Teaching Assistant Professional Development Program (TAPDP), a...
Sharpen your data science skills with a hands-on workshop on education research using R.
R is a free and powerful statistical computing language. Most courses that teach R start with an esoteric computer science lecture and sample data about cars. THIS course will provide busy faculty and graduate students with tools to analyze actual classroom data to...
Classroom Upgrades in Humanities Hall and Social Science Lab
Classrooms in Humanities Hall (HH) and Social Science Lab (SSL) received much needed improvements over summer to enhance the physical spaces and provide greater flexibility for instructors implementing active learning strategies. Key changes include: Interior...
How to Increase Student Reading in the English Classroom
Nathan Dean Allison, Department of English In one of her numerous Faculty Focus articles, Maryellen Weimer notes, “On any given day only 20 to 30 percent of the students arrive at class having done the reading.” This data would be somewhat unsettling in classrooms...
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