Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute have known that practice is essential for ...

Early childhood teachers can use these strategies and questions to unobtrusively guide students to develop metacognition.

Tips and real-life examples show how teachers can guide students to create genuinely useful artifacts of analysis and ...

Many instructors experience disappointment when their students’ exam scores don’t live up to expectations. How is it possible, we ask ourselves, that so many students failed to grasp the concepts we ...

Did the pandemic cause widespread learning loss? Or did students and educators learn new lessons and skills in creative ways? These questions dominated much of the discourse about education in 2022.

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

Teacher residency programs are transformative models for preparing educators for the K-12 teaching experience. These clinically-rich, immersive programs combine mentorship, year-long co-teaching in ...

Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

Not long ago, the administrators of Merrimack College’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning asked me if I would provide professional development for faculty members on how to teach ...

This past spring, along with two of my Mandel School colleagues, Dr. Jenny King and doctoral candidate Braveheart Gillani, I launched an antiracism course, Operationalizing Antiracism for Everyday ...

Reflection helped students think more carefully about individual mistakes. But it also reduced how many new problems they attempted and how many new mistakes they could learn from.