Instructors in classes of all sizes can benefit from mid-semester feedback. Student feedback can help you identify what is helping or hindering your students’ learning, better understand your students’ experiences in class, understand their perspectives on your course and assignment design, and gather their suggestions for changes that will benefit their learning. You can also… Read more »
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Don’t start from scratch. Start with the evidence.
“Research shows that students learn more and are more likely to succeed when research-proven pedagogical techniques are used and learning environments are inclusive” (Boyer Commission, 2022, p. 25). This finding is so robust, many colleges and universities are including an emphasis on evidence-based teaching in their strategic plans. In the IU 2030 plan, one of… Read more »
Building Metacognition and Growth Mindset with Exam Wrappers
When you return a graded exam to your students, you know they’re going to focus in on the grade, to the exclusion of everything else. That’s understandable, but problematic: there’s a lot more information in a graded exam than just the grade – and it’s information that students could use to improve their performance. They… Read more »
Improving Student Reading Engagement (or How to Avoid Blank Stares)
Do you live in dread of blank stares from students when beginning a classroom discussion on a new topic? There are many reasons for this, one of which being that students can struggle completing pre-class reading assignments. A recent study by Jae-eun Russell et.al. (2023) found that if students are not supported through the process… Read more »
Welcome Back 2023
Now that we are all settled into the semester a bit, I want to offer a slightly-belated welcome back… both to the semester and our CITL blog. We in the CITL have been working on ways we can support the IUB2030 strategic plan, particularly those sections that are aligned closely with our work—evidence-based teaching, inclusive… Read more »
How Soon Should Canvas Grades Post?
You spent and will continue to spend a lot of time setting up your assignments, quizzes, modules, and more in Canvas. While it’s true that once you create and assign a graded item, that item then has its own column in the gradebook, have you checked your Gradebook Settings to make sure grades are posting… Read more »