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“Exam Wrappers” Give Students a Chance to Reflect
How can we help students improve their exam scores? We can nag them to “Study more!” or “Study earlier!” or “Study smarter!” But in my experience, nothing has worked as well as a post-exam assessment tool (available on my course website) with … Continue reading
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Tagged exams, introductory biology, Jose Antonio Bowen, Kelly Cowan, Lena Ballard
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More Evolution, Please!
I thought you might be interested in this recent blog post by Kelly Cowan (Are WE the Missing Link in Acceptance of Evolution?). To me, the central idea of Kelly’s post is this: “It just might be possible that the … Continue reading
