Comments on: PROOF POINTS: College students often don’t know when they’re learning

By: Dane S. Claussen

Dane S. Claussen — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 04:34:25 +0000

Don’t worry, I’ve doubted the veracity big student evaluations from very early in my career. The sometimes nutty opinions are one thing, but often not even getting the facts straight is another.

By: Laura Hume

Laura Hume — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 19:33:06 +0000

How do you teach history this way?

By: Jay Kie

Jay Kie — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:05:36 +0000

Is the research evidence truly clear? What is the desired outcome for a science class – that the students do well on an assessment at the end of the class. I think not. The goal is that in the future those students, what ever career path they choose, will remember enough of the basic concepts to draw on their memory and look up the details. Of course measuring retention is not easy – but leaping to conclusions based what you can measure is not good scientific method.