The Five Question Summary revisited
Traditional student evaluations of teaching miss the mark in a number of key ways. Here is a simple, useful tool that might serve as a replacement.
Prioritizing participation
How might we incentivize energetically focused participation without assessing or grading it?
Taming the snowball
What happens if we use an alternative grading setup and a student gets stuck on an early topic?
Does alternative grading make cheating more likely?
A helpful meta-analysis of research on academic motivation gives clarity on the relationship between grading setups and academic dishonesty.
The way of subtraction
Most things get better when they get smaller.