Volume XLII, No. 12 | April 9, 2020 What to Expect When Testing Occurs Online As undergraduate classrooms across the country transition online, many faculty members are concerned about assessing their students in online environments. These concerns include issues with academic integrity and the lack of reliable proctoring of assessments. What options [...]
Volume XLII, No. 11 | April 2, 2020 An Emergency Field Guide to Helping Students Succeed in Online Classes The decision for many colleges to move coursework temporarily online, to send the majority of staff and faculty home to work remotely, and to limit campus resources was not made lightly. The knowledge [...]
Volume XLII, No. 10 | March 26, 2020 Developing Online Physical Education Courses Today, community college instructors all over the world are transitioning to teaching online, many for the first time. Instructors who teach courses that depend on in-person instruction and assessment, such as physical education, struggle to translate in-person coursework to [...]
Volume XLII, No. 9 | March 19, 2020 The Tailored and Balanced Approach The community college classroom is home to a large population of adult learners. How can instructors best facilitate the learning process for these students? The answer to this question can be found deep within the works of one of [...]
Volume XLII, No. 8 | March 12, 2020 Applying Sports Analogies to Assessment Assessment is a process of inquiry rooted in questions of "How are we doing?" and "How can we improve?" These fundamental questions are often set aside if faculty members feel that assessment initiatives increase their workload unnecessarily or yield [...]
Volume XLII, No. 7 | March 5, 2020 Interdisciplinary Off-Campus Experiences Harford Community College serves students in and around Harford County, Maryland, a part of the Baltimore metropolitan region. The location provides an abundance of opportunities for field trips to culturally significant areas in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. These interdisciplinary off-campus [...]
Volume XLII, No. 6 | February 27, 2020 The Role of Faculty in Incorporating Academic Mindset The focus of community colleges is ensuring student success. With this focus comes a need for tools to help students reach their goals. One emerging tool is educating students about mindset. Findings from the Center for [...]
Volume XLII, No. 5 | February 20, 2020 How to Create More Engaging Test Reviews Research shows that reviewing content increases students’ retention of that content, especially if this exposure requires them to retrieve information from memory. Simply providing a study guide consisting of sample questions or a list of concepts may [...]
Volume XLI, No. 5 | February 14, 2019 Ways to Encourage Student Participation in the Classroom Whether you are a seasoned instructor or one who recently started teaching, everyone at some time or another has faced a lack of student participation in the classroom. The sound of crickets, blank stares, eye contact [...]
Volume XL, No. 36 | November 1, 2018 Three Teaching Strategies to Use Today To engage students, instructors must do more than lecture; they must provide students with opportunities to engage deeply with the course content. When students are actively engaged, they focus on the new information being presented. The following three [...]
