When students are asked to remember and explain relevant knowledge just before applying it, they arrive at a more concrete ...

Experts tend to complete writing tasks more quickly than novices by combining or skipping steps due to years of practice and mastery. Our students often come to us as novices who are still learning ...

Are you a teacher, instructional coach, or school leader who is concerned about how to support all students in accessing grade-level texts? If so, you are not alone. In fact, in a survey last year, ...

It’s one of the biggest challenges facing educators today: K–12 students who missed lengthy stretches of school because of the pandemic are still expected to meet the benchmarks of their grade level.

UB undergraduate engineering students are learning to solve complex, open-ended engineering problems as part of their required coursework. One goal of assigning these types of problems is to better ...

Vol. 63, No. 5, Special Issue: Embodied Cognition and Language Learning in Virtual Environments (October 2015), pp. 691-708 (18 pages) Vocabulary is the foundation for students who learn a foreign ...

Summative assessments are implemented at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period to evaluate how well students have achieved the learning objectives, such as knowledge, skills, and ...

Learning requires building new skills and understanding on prior knowledge and abilities. The order and way students experience new information will have a large impact on how successful they are at ...

Group work has been a main activity recommended by mathematics education reform. We aim at describing the patterns of interaction between teachers and students during group work. We ask: How do ...

Why do we need to scaffold technology? It is often a mistake to think of our students as ‘digital natives’ (Bayne et al. 2020). Firstly, students' everyday digital environment is very different to the ...

As teachers and students enter the third year of the pandemic, we face unprecedented levels of grief in the learning environment. An estimated 1.5 million children worldwide lost a caregiver to ...

Creating a course map is like planning a road trip—you start with your destination (learning outcomes) and chart the best route to get there (instruction, activities, and assessments). A ...