by Annie | Oct 7, 2025 | AllTheThings, assessment and evaluation, teaching, undergraduates
You do want to hit the same concepts several times across multiple assignments. As to whether you can use the same questions, I can say that most students don’t notice when the same question comes up a second time. Some will. Probably can do it sometimes, but...
by Annie | Nov 30, 2023 | teaching
Undergraduate strategy 1: Intro and how-to in gen chem – Video, slides and canvas quiz questions about reading journal articles in Chemistry class a: Starts with an intro to what a scholarly article is (and isn’t), continues with a Canvas activity asking...
by Annie | Nov 1, 2020 | teaching
from NIST presentation April 8, 2022 by Melissa McCartney: Primary Scientific Literature in the Classroom: a great idea in theory but how do we assess student learning? Some tip sheets “How to read and understand a scientific paper.”...
by Annie | Apr 23, 2020 | remote learning, teaching, undergraduates
https://www.pivotinteractives.com/what-is-pivot-interactives: all subjects all.the.labs – http://tinyurl.com/PODOnlineLabs https://www.labarchives.com/ – electronic lab notebooks Hands-on labs, kits mailed to students’ homes:...
by Annie | Mar 23, 2020 | remote learning, teaching
Have your students keep a journal. Instead of what happened, write about experiences or memories. Or this exercise, modified from a webinar led by Bill Wischusen: name/write down 5 things you can see in the room, name/write 4 things you can feel, 3 things you can hear...
by Annie | Mar 17, 2020 | teaching
A list of things that I’ve been gathering, including some picked up from a MAA math webinar. I’m adding to this list as I go: The monitoring exams software seems to have some very easy work arounds. Namely students have their phone next to the...
