Florencia Ardon
Improving teaching and studying
Category: Learning and teaching
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Institutions of higher education have the goal of helping people learn: acquire knowledge and skills. Academic accommodations are different resources, tools or modifications that allow them to access that knowledge and skills. Universities have processes in place to provide students access to such accommodations. The processes may be more or less convoluted and even in…
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A Cornell alumni, at the time President of the Disability Awareness Union, mentioned once “Real inclusion is not to be accepted. Real inclusion is to be expected.” Often, thinking about my teaching, I ask myself–is this accepting, or expecting? An example of the difference would be: I’m hosting a dinner party and when my friends…
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Estimating how long it takes us to complete a task is difficult. Estimating how long it takes someone else is much more so. When teaching and training, we need to keep this in mind when setting times for essays, exams, and other academic tasks.
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The time we need to carry out an activity depends on not just our capacity but our familiarity with the task, the material we have at hand and much more. When we add time stress for exam takers, we’re not really measuring their knowledge. We’re measuring the level of stress given by a timed activity,…
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