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Incentives for Course Evaluations
Nov 30

Nov 30 Incentives for Course Evaluations

Cindy Nebel
For Teachers, Learning Scientists Posts

Over the years, I have heard a lot of different opinions about course evaluations. Here are a few of the (likely misquoted) gems: Student 1: I don’t fill out course evaluations because no one reads them anyway. Student 2: Yessssss, time to roast Professor Y!

GUEST POST: Cumulative Compensatory Assessment in Engineering Education
Nov 29

Nov 29 GUEST POST: Cumulative Compensatory Assessment in Engineering Education

Learning Scientists
For Researchers, For Teachers, Guest Posts

Procrastination – that is, delaying the start or completion of intended work – is extremely common among higher education students (1). The situation in Anton’s Materials Science 1 course, (part of the first-year Engineering curriculum at Avans University of Applied Sciences),

Weekly Digest #87: Encouraging Moral and Ethical Behavior
Nov 26

Nov 26 Weekly Digest #87: Encouraging Moral and Ethical Behavior

Learning Scientists
For Teachers, For Parents, For Researchers, Digests

As Yana mentioned in her post, we at the Learning Scientists are giving thanks, and so are many others. To stick with this theme, in this week's digest, we present 5 resources about teaching and modeling moral and ethical behavior.

THANK YOU to our guest bloggers from 2016!
Nov 23

Nov 23 THANK YOU to our guest bloggers from 2016!

Learning Scientists
Learning Scientists Posts, Guest Posts, For Parents, For Researchers, For Students, For Teachers

We're right in the middle of a season where a lot of us are giving thanks and reflecting on the year we have had. For some of us it is because of American or Canadian Thanksgiving, Japanese Labour Thanksgiving, or Turkish National Day of Thanks,

GUEST POST: Why you should be a skeptical science consumer
Nov 22

Nov 22 GUEST POST: Why you should be a skeptical science consumer

Learning Scientists
Guest Posts, For Researchers

Don’t take my word for it, but being a scientist is about being a skeptic. About not being satisfied with easy answers to hard problems. About not believing something merely because it seems plausible...nor about reading a scientific study and believing... 

Weekly Digest #86: How To Reduce Exam Stress
Nov 19

Nov 19 Weekly Digest #86: How To Reduce Exam Stress

Learning Scientists
For Students, Digests

That time of the year is approaching. No, we don’t mean Holiday/Christmas season, but rather the exam season before we can all relax. Exam time is usually a stressful time for students. Good preparation for exams is...

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