Naomi Yavneh Klos poses two questions for the NCHC community in her essay, "Thinking Critically, Acting Justly," which appears in this issue of JNCHC: (1) how honors pedagogy/curriculum can engage the highestability and most motivated students in questions of social justice; and (2) how the honors curriculum can serve as a place of…

Teaching computing students about the importance of evidence and about the use of empirical methods for evaluating computing technologies can be difficult, especially within dual honors undergraduate degree programs. The aims of this study were to explore the effectiveness of second-year undergraduate computing students in carrying out a…

The author follows a group of honors students as they learn a systematic approach to exploring and understanding works of art. The author has devised both a series of questions that structure a thoughtful investigation into what we see and a path that gradually leads students from the examination of familiar, everyday objects to the analysis and…