The oral exam is not just for graduate school. Surprisingly, I found that teaching mathematics online during COVID-19 infused the seemingly antiquated tactic of oral exams with fresh purpose. With ...

I ask for unique and specific examples, which can help make the concepts come alive, even though they are tough to grade. It is challenging to create a rubric but well worth it. Cheating is no longer ...

The assignment involves no laptop, no chatbot and no technology of any kind. In fact, there’s no pen or paper, either. Instead, students in Chris Schaffer’s biomedical engineering class at Cornell ...

Flight instructors need more than rote memorization, requiring instructional-level knowledge in areas like aeromedical and human factors, and the ability to adapt training through realistic, tailored ...

understand and analyse a written text (assessment of reading comprehension), identify academic language structures relevant to understanding the text and specific passages, and use such structures ...

This past summer, I taught a six-week online undergraduate course on algorithms in computer science. The class is usually somewhat large -- for instance, last spring, more than 200 students enrolled.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Students are turning in flawless essays and problem sets, yet many can’t explain their work, a troubling sign that ...