In the first of our two volumes of How College Affects Students (1991 and 2005), Ernie Pascarella and I suggested that educational effectiveness can be enhanced through “learning-centered management, ...

US colleges are reviving medieval-style assessments like oral exams, viva voce, and in-class essays to counter AI-driven ...

Being a good student or a good person isn’t about degrees or status but about admirable qualities like discipline, which is key to success. Good traits should be nurtured from an early age ...

1.Students “self-generating” connections “Self-generation” is the term used to describe having students themselves identify how what they are learning can be relevant to their lives and goals.

The general plan for assessment in higher education is to aggregate student completion of tasks (essays, exams, code writing, etc.) and evaluate the work to see if students have met benchmarks across ...

Student learning outcomes (SLOs) allow us to determine whether students are reaching the goals and objectives that we want them to achieve. They are expressed as specific statements describing the ...

“I am only good enough if I get good grades.” This is a common ideology that many students develop as early as elementary school. It followed me all the way to college.

A 2018 study conducted by Learning House, Inc., showed 85% of students who had previously enrolled in both face-to-face and online courses felt their online experience was either the same or ...

Sixteen chapters. Seven hundred pages. One summer. For most students, that workload in a human anatomy and physiology class ...

GRAND FORKS — University of North Dakota President Andrew Armacost said he doesn't view the soon-to-open Career Impact Academy as competition to taking in prospective students. Rather, he views it as ...