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Checked Your Bias Lately? Reasons and Strategies for Rural Teachers to Self-Assess for Grading Bias
(2014)
Multiple factors influence teachers' grading and scoring of students' class work, homework, projects and tests. Put simply, bias in grading is giving different grades on student work of essentially equal quality, based on ...
SUCCESS for Teaching Assistant Professional Development
(2012-07)
This paper reflectively applies the Motivating Opportunity Model (SUCCESS Model) to a successful redesign of a university teaching-assistant professional development program. It illustrates how the principles of motivation ...
SUCCESS in Engineering Education: Applying an ID Motivational Framework to Promote Engagement and Innovation
(2013-10)
The purpose of this study was to identify motivational gaps and design to optimize for motivational needs in a current university course in mechanical engineering. The course instructor and instructional designer ...
Rural Teachers' Best Motivating Strategies: A Blending of Teachers' and Students' Perspectives
(2008)
This paper extracts and elaborates rural secondary teachers' most effective reported motivating strategies. From the data generated by two years of mixed method research in rural secondary schools, these strategies emerged ...
Standing in the Gap: Research that Informs Strategies for Motivating and Retaining Rural High School Students
(2013)
Rural schools face the challenges of motivating and retaining students, often in the face of severe resource constraints. This paper synthesizes fifteen years of the author's rural research on secondary students' school-related ...