Everyone has a group project horror story. Maybe you had a classmate who got away with doing none of the work. Or maybe a group member doubled down on doing something incorrectly. For the really ...

A few years ago, we hired an adjunct professor to teach a three-hour night class. After a few weeks, he came to us in frustration because he couldn’t get the students to discuss the material, and when ...

Elementary teachers can reap the benefits of differentiated instruction in math by leveraging existing resources.

For many students, group projects elicit feelings of frustration due to improperly managed or unequally distributed labor or burdensome time allocated to an assignment. However, group work can give ...

Keeping students engaged and on task can be difficult. Can rewards help? Teachers are split on the answer. Some swear by incentives like stickers, a fun activity, or a sweet treat. Others say that ...

W hen Anya Galli Robertson taught her research-methods course for the first time since the pandemic last year, the associate professor of sociology at the University of Dayton realized that the major ...

Christine Morley received partial funding from the Australian Council of Heads of Schools of Social Work to undertake the research that informed this article The research team also included: Vanessa ...

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