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The Power of Empowerment

Faculty Focus

Additionally, research asserts that specific practices associated with growth mindset highly impact student motivation, learning, and achievement (Dweck, 2008; Barber, van Oostveen, and Childs, 2019). Overall, my top three recommended practices include: self-regulating strategies, video-based learning, and formative assessments.

Empower 101
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The Power of Empowerment

Faculty Focus

Additionally, research asserts that specific practices associated with growth mindset highly impact student motivation, learning, and achievement (Dweck, 2008; Barber, van Oostveen, and Childs, 2019). Overall, my top three recommended practices include: self-regulating strategies, video-based learning, and formative assessments.

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How to Combat the High Schoolization of the University

Inside Higher Ed

If a moral education strikes most faculty as inappropriate at liberal, secular institutions, are there pedagogies that we might use but don’t, to test student knowledge at a deep level or prompt their intellectual, social and moral growth? The catch: this can’t be done—at least not without cheating or bending the rules.