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A Complicated and Qualified Recommendation for Creating Groups

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 …

Beware of Simple Universal Recommendations about Group Assignment

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 …

Are Group Assignments a Waste of Time?

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. …

Collaborative Projects and Assignments

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 …

What even is a HIP?

(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 …

Understanding HIPs through a Theoretical Model

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 …

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