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Category Archives: The Experiment
Redesigning My Intro Course
This post is a continuation of my thinking over (at least) the last two posts. The focus is on how I plan to incorporate high impact practices into my introduction to macroeconomics course this Fall to improve on last year’s … Continue reading
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High Impact Learning
It’s the time of the year when I start thinking about redesigning my courses for the coming academic year. Last year at this time I was preoccupied planning for my new job as director of our university teaching center. As … Continue reading
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More on metacognition and assessment
For a couple of years now, I’ve tried to build low stakes, formative assessment into my intro courses. The intent was to help students become more responsible for their own learning and promote more mid-course adjustments to study strategies while … Continue reading
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More on the ‘Do over’
Some weeks ago, I blogged about a new way of curving exam grades which I’m trying in my principles course. Monday I handed back the second exam, which is the most difficult of the year, primarily because it covers the … Continue reading
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It’s not just semantics
I returned the first exam in my intro course the other day. The average grade was a bit lower than normal. I wonder if that reflects the somewhat higher than normal number of first year students in it. I did … Continue reading
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UMWBlogs, Baby; They’re taking over!
I was reading the first metacognitive activity submitted by students in my intro course, prior to discussing it tomorrow. (I’ve decided to move that discussion outside of class time to avoid the potential problems I ran into last year. I’m … Continue reading
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Quick note on teaching my intro course
One of the ideas I explored this summer was the finding that students bring misconceptions into a course that need to be explicitly refuted if learning is to be transferable. It turns out that there is not that much known … Continue reading
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More on Student Metacognition and Motivation
My latest favorite blogger is Lanny Arvan. (Thanks Martha!) Aside from being a fallen economist turned instructional technologist, he’s a fascinating and deep blogger. One of his (relatively) recent posts struck a chord as it related to my interest in … Continue reading
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Postmortem on my experiments with teaching this year.
At the end of the school year, about a month ago, I was pretty unhappy with my teaching experiments this year. In my intro course, the metacognition experiment didn’t seem to go very well this year. Part of it was … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Meta 2
As I read over my principles students’ second metacognitive activity this weekend, I had a couple thoughts. First, the administrative one: Fewer students submitted this meta: 54% versus 70% for the first meta. Still, it’s more submissions than meta 2 … Continue reading
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