Center for Engaged Learning

Do Cohesive Groups Matter?

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 …

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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