http://www.massdistraction.org/weblog/2019/09/08/the-psychology-of-waiting/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:51:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.massdistraction.org/weblog/2019/09/08/the-psychology-of-waiting/#comment-420863 kjrsten Sun, 22 Sep 2019 19:14:30 +0000 http://www.massdistraction.org/weblog/?p=5839#comment-420863 The meeting I had on Friday that kept me from going to the climate march was for a teachers "community of practice" around the book "Transparent Design in Higher Education" -- students who work on radically transparent assignments (ones that explain the purpose of the assignment, the tasks to be done, the criteria for success in a very clear and transparent way) are much likelier to succeed. The authors did a study where a group of students were given just 2 "transparent" assignments during a semester, and they were 50% more likely to be retained (to sign up for classes the next semester)!!! The meeting I had on Friday that kept me from going to the climate march was for a teachers “community of practice” around the book “Transparent Design in Higher Education” — students who work on radically transparent assignments (ones that explain the purpose of the assignment, the tasks to be done, the criteria for success in a very clear and transparent way) are much likelier to succeed. The authors did a study where a group of students were given just 2 “transparent” assignments during a semester, and they were 50% more likely to be retained (to sign up for classes the next semester)!!!

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