Perhaps one way to accomplish the goal of challenging students during exams is to infuse critical thinking into your exams. When we look at test banks provided by publishers or think back to our own undergraduate college days, the one thing that, perhaps, stands out when you think of taking exams was all the multiple-choice… Continue Reading Using Multiple Choice Exams to Test Critical Thinking
In this time of rapidly converting our courses to distance or online learning modalities, perhaps one of the biggest questions that remain is how to do testing so that students don’t cheat. Perhaps there is another way to look at this question. How can we reconstruct tests so that students can’t cheat, or at least… Continue Reading Love & Testing in the Time of Coronavirus
Have you ever thought there was a better way? Whether that be grading, asking questions, inquiry, teaching? I want to explore these topics, and more. I also want you to join me in this exploration. Therefore, I am creating a Learning Community to address these very issues. This Learning Community will read some interesting books,… Continue Reading Hacking a Learning Community
I just returned from a conference of the National Association of Biology Teachers. This year the conference was in Chicago. It certainly makes it easy when the conferences are close by, hp the train in Grand Rapids, no fuss. I try my hardest to get to at least one conference a year. I think it… Continue Reading Conference Calling
How about centering education on a wicked problem rather than centering on a department or traditional major? Radical idea? We have discussed for quite some time now about tearing down the silos in education. Why is this such a hard thing to do? Perhaps it is because we have inherent silos with Departments and Majors.… Continue Reading Wicked – Not the Musical
