Shake up Your Exam Routine! Student-Centered Exam Enhancements
Maczynska,Magdalena
5/19/2023 1:01:47 PM
Exams are traditionally seen as high-stakes summative assessments designed to measure content mastery. But, with some creative tweaks, traditional exams can do double (or triple!) duty by engaging students in deeper metacognitive thinking about thei…
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Are We Bored Yet? Mix It up With a Mid-Term Attention Refresh!
Maczynska,Magdalena
4/18/2023 2:50:40 PM
In his book Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It (2020), James Lang reminds us that attention is not the default state of the human mind. On the contrary, attention should be thought of as an achievement: “the normal sta…
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