Note-Taking Cheat Codes

Note-Taking Cheat Codes

As the college semester or term winds down, students will scour their notes to prepare for their exams. But do they have an effective note-taking method? Their system may be useful for capturing information but not good enough to prepare them for tests. Since much of...
Grades or Outcomes? What’s your preference?

Grades or Outcomes? What’s your preference?

Are you a grades educator or an outcomes educator? I discovered that I had changed from a grades educator to an outcome educator over time. While cleaning out several old work boxes, I found some files from twenty years ago. I came across a folder that I labeled...
Molly’s New Metacognitive Learning Metrics

Molly’s New Metacognitive Learning Metrics

Have you ever set students up for failure? Well, if you’ve ever advised students to study X number of hours for every hour of class time, then you have set them up for failure. No worries. You didn’t intend to harm them. But by encouraging students to use time to...
Introducing The Learner’s Formula

Introducing The Learner’s Formula

Professionals in all fields rely upon processes to do consistently high-quality work. We need processes most when our jobs require us to handle high volumes of work or when the work is complex. Take painters for example. Professional painters use the “W...