Although research has shown that student engagement is strongly related to performance on assessment tasks, especially for traditionally underserved subgroups of students, increasing student engagement has not been the goal of standardized tests of content knowledge. Recent state and federal policies, however, are changing the assessment…

The dissemination of good practices in MLE requires a more rigorous definition of their characteristics, including criteria and indicators to measure their quality. This article -- after reflecting on the meaning and function of identifying good MLE practices -- presents a systematic framework of 35 indicators for good MLE activities in Italian…

Decision making is central to the teaching of engineering, however, little has been written about the teaching decisions of engineering educators. By exploring the processes through which engineering educators make teaching decisions and the factors they consider, the authors can use decision making as a means to understand their teaching…