The Authentic Assessment Toolbox is a how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning. For more than ten years Jon Mueller has taught a graduate course entitled...

Ruth Reynard's article on the Campus Technology website provides helpful guidelines for properly directing the use of blogs within a course. The article details the following pitfalls: 1.Ineffective contextualization,...

This site includes a number of Berkeley classes, hosted by Youtube.com. The University of California, Berkeley is the preeminent public research and teaching institution in the nation. From classic literature to emerging...

This web page contains Jeffery M. Saul's doctoral dissertation. Users may click on links to view each chapter. This dissertation compares the effectiveness of traditional calculus-based instruction with University of...

This paper, presented at the 2001 Physics Education Research Conference, offers a new way to approach homework problems in electrostatics through the use of “bridging exercises” as part of students’ homework. These...