Instructional strategies

November 22, 2022 Diana Castañeda

A Guide to Traditional Ecological Knowledge

For Native American Heritage Month, here is a (hopefully) helpful guide to including Indigenous knowledge in your classroom.

October 12, 2022 Diana Castañeda

Sharing is Caring: The Effects of Teaching Conversations

Sharing your teaching practices, as well as learning new practices, can be beneficial to you and maybe your students.

September 14, 2022 Ya-Wen Chuang

How to promote intergroup student interaction in an introductory lab

By directly prompting students to interact and incorporating open-ended tasks, lab instructors can increase intergroup student interaction to improve students’ learning.

July 27, 2022 Nick Young

Visuals and embedded questions seem to be make educational videos effective

Both need to be present in the video to get the intended effect.

April 28, 2022 Nick Young

Trying to improve your students’ critical thinking skills? Try skill-based labs

Skill-based labs seem to improve students’ critical thinking skills and their attitudes about experimental physics

February 16, 2022 Nick Young

Short post-lecture multimedia videos might help student learning

1 minute post-lecture videos seem to do the trick.

November 17, 2021 Nick Young

Having students work in small groups might improve learning

However, the frequency matters. Otherwise, there’s almost no benefit.

September 2, 2020 Nick Young

Helping students learn from online self-paced tools

The instructor must set the expectations why students should use the tool.

November 26, 2019 Prasanth

Meeting Bloom’s 2 sigma challenge with research-validated strategies

A combination of research-validated teaching methods can produce learning outcomes at a higher than 2 sigma level compared to traditional lecture.

November 14, 2019 Emily Kerr

Students Like Active Learning Less-But Learn More

Even though students learn more in active learning environments, students still feel they learn more in traditional lecture settings.