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 ...
“When I was a student, group work made me so nervous,” a professor confided to me over Zoom. “I just did all the work because I didn’t trust anyone else with my grade.” Her story is not uncommon—and ...
Jacqueline Chaney’s 2nd grade class buzzes with activity all day long, and a good chunk of it takes place in groups. By just the second month of school, the 7- and 8-year-olds move effortlessly in and ...
As a college professor, trying to get students excited about the work I have to grade later can be one of the more frustrating things about teaching. But when an assignment hits the right chord, it ...
Student peer assessments provide opportunities for classmates to give and receive meaningful feedback, building valuable skills for both reviewers and recipients. Reviewers develop the ability to ...
Diversity in higher education has surged to the forefront of the national discourse: The U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down race-conscious college admissions programs, and several states have ...