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Philip Ramsey; Stefano Cataloni – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
Prompted by concerns over student use of ChatGPT, staff teaching leadership and teamwork on a large university course experimented with an alternative way of assessing students' learning. Past assessment practices emphasised individual reflection and quality assurance. Aiming for a more relational approach that is aligned with the course's…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Alternative Assessment, College Faculty, Verbal Tests
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Sandra L. Pettit; Clifford L. Henderson – Chemical Engineering Education, 2023
Development of team skills is vital to becoming a successful and productive engineer. To prepare students for successful team-based work, they need a basic understanding of the organizational psychology underpinning teamwork and an introduction to tools and techniques to develop and sustain team effectiveness. The goal of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Assignments
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Shafer, Gregory – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
As writing teachers at the community college level, we have a unique opportunity to teach writing that is infused with passion, but we must begin by first reconnecting with those writers who we read and admired as students and recall why we became community college composition teachers in the first place. We must remember that we write to make…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Community Colleges, Writing Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Yoshiko M. Herrera – Journal of Political Science Education, 2024
In this article I discuss an approach to teaching about the Russian war in Ukraine that uses the war as a focal point for teaching about topics in comparative politics and international relations. I discuss the pedagogical advantages for political science teaching, including meeting the interests of students, introducing students to theories in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, War, Political Science, Political Attitudes
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Andrew S. Taylor – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2024
This essay shows how one professor teaching "Introduction to Buddhism" sought to counteract his students' view that Chinese and Tibetan forms of Buddhism represented a deviation from a "pure" Indian Buddhism rather than worthwhile forms of creativity and religiosity in themselves. A simple comparative assignment that asked a…
Descriptors: French, English, Translation, Singing
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Xiaoni Zhang – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2025
This teaching tip explores the integration of AI tools into database education. The author describes how instructors can use AI tools to prepare teaching materials and how students can use AI to facilitate database development. The teaching tips provided encompass both course-level objectives and assignment-specific strategies. The inclusion of AI…
Descriptors: Databases, Technology Integration, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Denardo, Danielle – Teaching Sociology, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has both exposed and exacerbated many enduring social inequalities in countries throughout the world. Sociology instructors are thus likely to incorporate content related to this relationship between the pandemic and inequalities in their courses. This article explores the potential of horror films, specifically the subgenre…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Films, Social Bias
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Green, Kimberly; Hutchings, Pat – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2018
Building on an initiative of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, Washington State University faculty have worked to develop more effective integrative capstone assignments in ways that support ongoing improvement.
Descriptors: Outcome Based Education, College Faculty, Integrated Activities, Assignments
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David B. Nelson; Anaelle Emma Gackiere; Samantha Elizabeth LeGrand; Daniel A. Guberman – Thresholds in Education, 2025
In response to the significant disruption posed by emergent AI technology, we propose a four part framework for teaching and learning practice and development. Rather than focus on the specific technologies of the moment, this framework provides actionable suggestions for individuals with varying views of AI and its positive and negative…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence
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Grady, Jessica Stoltzfus; Jenefsky, Cyd; Bayers, Leslie; McConnell, Nicholas J. – Assessment Update, 2023
Equity-minded assessment refers to a set of practices that collectively serve to understand, prioritize, and optimize the learning experiences and outcomes of student learners, particularly students from communities who have been historically marginalized or underserved in higher education. The scholarship on equity-minded assessment (Montenegro…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Student Evaluation, Culture Fair Tests, Culturally Relevant Education
Van Tassel, Kristin; Jorsch, Thomas F. – Liberal Education, 2018
Faculty at Bethany College, Kansas found that when engaging with controversial topics like social justice, students needed lower-stakes spaces to think--and history and writing, together, provided these needed spaces. When taught in combination, these two subject areas prompted engagement and self-reflection, and the interdisciplinary synergy…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Interdisciplinary Approach, Writing Assignments, College Faculty
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Shafer, Gregory – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
We, as community college English teachers, have the opportunity to empower students who have been subjected to years of top-down, teacher-directed education. We have the obligation to make them critical thinkers, improving their chances of being thoughtful and successful adults. It all begins with the way we teach writing and the respect we have…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Writing Instruction
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Blithe, Sarah Jane; Fidelibus, Brian – College Teaching, 2022
This paper describes a collaboration between one faculty instructor and seven undergraduate student collaborators. Together, the team designed a new college course. The analysis provides a practical way for educational leaders to challenge the authority of knowledge--engaging students in their education and motivating faculty to freshen their…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Cooperation
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Stevens, Jennifer – Journal of Educators Online, 2018
Online instructors are tasked with creating meaningful learning assignments, but they may struggle with balancing their teaching workloads. This article includes five strategies for creating assignments and activities that promote learning without overwhelming instructional workload, including anticipating student questions when writing…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Assignments, Faculty Workload, Time Management
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Wells, Pamela C.; Dickens, Kristen N. – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2020
Counseling embraces creativity. As counselor educators, creativity is an opportunity to model vulnerability, identity, integrity, and connectedness (Palmer 2017) for students. McCarthy "Journal of Asia Pacific Counseling," 7(1), 37-45 (2017) posited questions about the infusion of creativity into the counselor education classroom. This…
Descriptors: Creativity, Counselor Training, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation
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