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Transparency Isn’t Spoon-Feeding: How a Transformative Approach to the Use of Explicit Assessment Criteria Can Support Student Self-Regulation
If little care is taken when establishing clear assessment requirements, there is the potential for spoon-feeding. However, in this conceptual article we argue that transparency in assessment is essential to providing equality of opportunity and promoting students’...
Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study of Social Exclusion
Abstract: A neuroimaging study examined the neural correlates of social exclusion and tested the hypothesis that the brain bases of social pain are similar to those of physical pain. Participants were scanned while playing a virtual ball-tossing game in which they...
Designing Purposeful Pathways for Student Achievement through Transparency and Problem-Centered Learning
Abstract: Building on this insight, AAC&U foregrounds helping students develop as intentional learners as a guiding principle within the ABOUT TG Created by the Texas Legislature in 1979, TG is a public, nonprofit corporation that promotes educational access and...
A Brief Social-Belonging Intervention Improves Academic and Health Outcomes of Minority Students
Abstract: A brief intervention aimed at buttressing college freshmen’s sense of social belonging in school was tested in a randomized controlled trial (N = 92), and its academic and health-related consequences over 3 years are reported. The intervention aimed to...
What Is the Model Minority Myth?
The myth of the “model minority” is pervasive. It does real damage. And Asian American students aren’t the only ones it harms. Read Article Here
Increased Structure and Active Learning Reduce the Achievement Gap in Introductory Biology
Abstract: Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics instructors have been charged with improving the performance and retention of students from diverse backgrounds. To date, programs that close the achievement gap between students from disadvantaged versus...
Recursive Processes in Self-Affirmation: Intervening to Close the Minority Achievement Gap
Abstract: A 2-year follow-up of a randomized field experiment previously reported in Science is presented. A subtle intervention to lessen minority students' psychological threat related to being negatively stereotyped in school was tested in an experiment conducted...
Strategic Questioning Manual
In these days of constant change, and the need for even more change if we are to live peacefully in a healthy environment, we ask ourselves: "How can our organization weather the tides of constant reorganization and restructuring and still maintain a clear vision of...
Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines
Abstract: The gender imbalance in STEM subjects dominates current debates about women’s underrepresentation in academia. However, women are well represented at the Ph.D. level in some sciences and poorly represented in some humanities (e.g., in 2011, 54% of U.S....
How L&D Can Build Inclusive Learning Programs
In the keynote opening of our 2020 Partners’ Meeting this past June, Frances Frei said, “Meaningful change only happens quickly. With inclusion, do it quickly and do it now. Do it without a sense of perfection, simply do it better tomorrow than you do today.” That is...