Last night, as we drove to our first class of the new year, my husband and I deconstructed the syllabus and expectations of our latest class. Headlining our concerns was a mandatory participation ...

In their course syllabi, many psychology professors grade students on one other thing besides their performance on quizzes, examinations, papers, and similar assessment instruments—that thing is class ...

A recent survey on class participation conducted by the Undergraduate Assembly Academic Affairs committee drew attention to students’ expectations and comfort levels for speaking up in class. The ...

Engaging students with course materials is a challenging aspect of teaching in higher education. This problem is particularly prevalent in graduate-level classes, where students from different ...

Many students think more flexibility on classroom deadlines, attendance and participation would boost their academic success, a recent Student Voice survey found. About a quarter of students also see ...

Despite being such a large school, Virginia Tech was able to reach a 13:1 student-to-professor ratio. With those numbers, students should take advantage of great mentoring from professors and ...

I first began writing for The Chronicle in the fall of 1999, in a series describing my search for a tenure-track job. Back then, readers sent me actual, physical letters, although it wasn’t long ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Heather’s excellent post on fostering on active online discussion got me thinking about analog ...

When I first started college, I figured that participation grades would diminish in light of more intellectually challenging material that requires more individual reflection and demanding assignments ...

The applicability of self-monitoring to the problem of increasing classroom participation was investigated. Accordingly, classroom participation of 18 college classes was recorded for three meetings, ...

Please note that 30% of your grade will be based on class participation. The class is a walkthrough of many issues related to Internet regulation, structured as class discussions of readings by many ...