For students who have fallen years behind in math and reading, recovering that lost academic ground is a marathon, not a sprint. But it doesn’t hurt to pick up the pace. A new study of more than 5 ...

In the last 30 years, a series of innovative findings in neuroscience, metacognition, and learning have inexorably changed how we think about educating students. The notions that learning is ...

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. There’s a bomb ticking! Jon Spike, coordinator of ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

What goals do you value the most as a student? Getting outstanding scores, ranking among the best, or exploring knowledge and mastering skills? If grades and rankings are your top priorities, do you ...

Award-winning educator Valerie Bolling has written a book about setting writing goals to make the writing process more accessible for students and more manageable for teachers. In addition to her ...

Learning a new language brings a whole range of interesting benefits, but how can they be applied to academic goals? The truth is there are plenty of ways that picking up a second language can help a ...

The most important phrase in higher education in the past decade has been "assessment of student learning outcomes." Researchers at two institutions, however, maintain that top U.S. colleges and ...