Monthly Archives: December 2012

Some new things I tried this semester, Part 2: Summative assessment

December 21, 2012 – 10:50 am

So in addition to trying out a new lesson plan concept this semester, I also screwed up my courage and asked a few of the faculty I worked with to share their students’ bibliographies from the papers or projects they worked on. This is part of a concerted effort on my part to add summative […]

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Some new things I tried this semester, part 1: The workshop class

December 20, 2012 – 10:24 am

One of the biggest challenges I have as a teacher is when I get a class where the students have wildly different backgrounds and experience with doing research.  Some of them might be second-semester first-year students who have never done college-level research before; others might be juniors or seniors with a number of research projects […]

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