When I began teaching, I adopted the common practice of grading student participation. I set aside 10 percent of my students’ grades for that purpose, and did my best to keep track of how much they ...

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 ...

During the idyllic summer before my trek through Columbia started, my expectations for the year were concrete: late nights walking in Manhattan, rides on the intricate subway system, and picnics at ...

When I first started teaching, my attitude toward students who remained silent in discussion classes could be summed up with the words of Bernard Hopkins, the fistic sage of Philadelphia: “Bernard ...

This class is designed to be an essentially participatory endeavor. Collectively we know more than we do individually, and by engaging the subject matter interactively, we'll learn the material better ...

Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions. So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University ...