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Corey Moss-Pech – University of Chicago Press, 2025
Humanities majors are used to answering the question, "So, what are you going to do with that degree?" The common misconception is that students in humanities programs don't learn any useful skills for the real world. In "Major Trade-Offs," sociologist Corey Moss-Pech argues that not only do humanities majors learn real-world…
Descriptors: Humanities, Employment Potential, Majors (Students), Misconceptions
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Luo, Jiahui; Chan, Cecilia K. Y.; Zhao, Yue – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
Intensive research attention has focused on developing students' evaluative judgement within the higher education curriculum, but little has addressed how it can be measured. The contextual nature of evaluative judgement makes it difficult to generate an encompassing instrument, highlighting the need for situated measurement tools. Against this…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Higher Education, Evaluative Thinking, Intercultural Communication
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Romcevic, Nebojsa – European Journal of Physics Education, 2018
This paper has two parts. In the first part, intended for physics students as well as for engineering students whose primary interest is not physics, a new lesson related to shadow properties is given as a part of lectures on light. The effects resulting from a shadow 'motion' observed on a screen were looked into. The relationship between the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Engineering Education, Teaching Methods