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Do Cohesive Groups Matter?

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by David Buck In previous posts (here and here), I’ve been writing about the different ways that groups can be created for class projects, and whether the method of group assignment has an impact on learning. In this post, I …

written by admin on October 13, 2020 in Collaborative Projects and Assignments and Doing EL and Engaged Learning and Studying EL with no comments

A Complicated and Qualified Recommendation for Creating Groups

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by David Buck As a warning, I’m going to talk about methods again for part of this post because I can’t seem to help myself, but I will actually make a recommendation by the end, so there is a payoff …

written by admin on September 15, 2020 in Collaborative Projects and Assignments and Doing EL and Studying EL with no comments

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Beware of Simple Universal Recommendations about Group Assignment

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by David Buck With any group assignment, there are a number of decisions that need to be made before introducing the assignment to students. Some of those decisions have to do with features of the assignment (e.g., what will you …

written by admin on September 4, 2020 in Collaborative Projects and Assignments and Doing EL and Studying EL with no comments

Are Group Assignments a Waste of Time?

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by David Buck Are group assignments effective pedagogy or a waste of time? This is the question asked by researcher Michael Thom (2020) in his recent paper examining the scholarship on collaborative pedagogy. To be clear, I’m being literal here. …

written by admin on August 6, 2020 in Collaborative Projects and Assignments and Doing EL and Studying EL with no comments

Collaborative Projects and Assignments

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by David Buck The high-impact educational practice (HIP) that I’m studying and writing about for the next two years is “collaborative projects and assignments.” Part of the reason that I selected this topic was because it was one of the …

written by admin on July 30, 2020 in Doing EL and Engaged Learning with no comments

What even is a HIP?

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(Understanding HIPs through a Theoretical Model – Part 2) by David Buck In my previous post, I started deconstructing the idea of high impact practices (HIPs), with the goal of articulating a definition that would be useful to researchers and …

written by admin on July 6, 2020 in Engaged Learning and High Impact Practices and Studying EL with no comments

Understanding HIPs through a Theoretical Model

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by David Buck As the next Center for Engaged Learning Scholar, I wanted to write my first post on something that we might take for granted – the definition of a High-Impact Practice (HIP). If you find yourself reading this …

written by admin on June 18, 2020 in CEL Scholar and Engaged Learning and High Impact Practices with no comments

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