student attitudes

5 Online Homework Settings for Better Student Engagement

If you’re like many introductory physics instructors, you likely use an online homework system. These systems have evolved tremendously over the past decade, and now allow instructors to highly customize “assignments settings.” For example, instructors control how many attempts each student has and whether hints and feedback are available. While flexibility can be good, […]

July 27th, 2016|Tags: feedback, homework, homework system, settings, software, student attitudes, student understanding|

Practice Makes Progress!

How can you tell whether a student really understands the class material? Education researchers agree that assessing this is difficult and that the best and most trusted measure is still an exam that is hand-graded by the instructor. On the vast majority of these exams, students are asked to show all of their work, […]

November 24th, 2015|Tags: grading, homework, software, student attitudes, student understanding|