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Research: Enhancing teaching and learning through dialogue: a student and staff partnership model

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Researchers describe and analyze a model for developing student–staff partnerships to enhance teaching and learning, where students act as consultants providing timely and focused feedback to instructors on aspects of their practice, finding that face-to...

Engaging students in a course postmortem dialogue

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Alfred Guzzetti, Osgood Hooker Professor of Visual Arts, dedicates the final session of VES 52R: Introduction to Non-Fiction Videomaking—where students spend the term creating one nonfiction film on a subject of their choosing—to a class-wide postmortem...

Elements of Effective Class Preparation

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The C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard Business School developed a series of questions to assist instructors in planning effective courses

Research: Improved learning in a large-enrollment physics class

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In a study conducted at the University of British Columbia, Deslauriers and colleagues found that instruction of a large-enrollment physics class taught using the concept of “deliberate practice,” based in constructivism and formative assessment, resulted...

Setting up effective feedback loops: The role of assessment in course transformation

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Logan McCarty, Director of Physical Sciences Education, and Louis Deslauriers, Director of Science Teaching and Learning, adopted an active pedagogy for a large introductory physics course and saw significant gains in student learning and attitudes...