
In Your Corner, Student Learning
Why Best Practices Are Not Always Effective Practices
We hear a lot about the practices we should use to ensure learning for our students. Of course, we want our students to be successful and our instruction to make a positive impact. However, simply pulling a strategy “off t...

Assessment and Curriculum, In Your Corner, Student Learning
Most Grading Does Not Increase Learning Motivation—Here’s What Does
As much as we might want to believe otherwise, grades as they are typically employed are not very effective learning motivators. Certainly, they can be used to get students to do more work, avoid embarrassment, si...