Effective course design begins with understanding the process of thinking and learning. These processes are commonly termed "metacognition." Metacognition includes a critical awareness of one’s ...

In higher education, particularly with my graduate students, students occasionally focus on the individual points of an assignment rubric instead of stepping back and looking holistically at the ...

A guide to crafting and writing clear assignment instructions that students can understand and follow If your assignments require students to find, evaluate or use information sources of any kind, the ...