In their course syllabi, many psychology professors grade students on one other thing besides their performance on quizzes, examinations, papers, and similar assessment instruments—that thing is class ...

You can always find at least two types of students in every class: the talker and the listener. Because of this big difference, there can be a divide between classmates. Unfortunately, this becomes ...

Faculty must report academic participation when assigning an “F” grade. Faculty will select from three failure options that show how a student participated in class(es). Students receiving a failing ...

What is Initial Course Participation (ICP)? Under Title IV (“Student Assistance”) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, institutions of higher education are required to verify that students receiving ...

However, when researchers broke the numbers down by class, illuminating patterns emerged: having more female peers in the room both significantly increased women’s willingness to talk and improved ...

Despite being such a large school, Virginia Tech was able to reach a 13:1 student-to-professor ratio. With those numbers, students should take advantage of great mentoring from professors and ...