Student reflections can take many forms: an individual five-minute writing activity, a full-class discussion, or somewhere in-between. (From https://learning.northeastern.edu/reflecting-on-the-last-day-of-class/) Below is a set of possible prompts that you might use or adapt, based on a four-question reflective learning technique that has been shown to increase students’ retention of material (Boucquey, 2014; Dietz-Uhler & Lanter, 2009): Can… Read more »
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OCQs
Among faculty, online course questionnaires can be a source of pride and satisfaction—and frustration and anxiety. As Bayraktar (2020) notes: There is long standing evidence as well as many big-picture, philosophical reasons why course evaluations are problematic (evidence of gender bias and racial/ethnic bias, evidence that that students will give worse ratings to professors who benefit their learning in the long term and that students… Read more »