Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Kitto, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

allthe team peer ratings is certainly more time-consuming for the instructor. Even the students whodislike working in teams understand the necessity of learning how to do so effectively for theirfuture careers. Some students, as predicted from their learning styles, also dislike active,cooperative work even if it does improve outcomes. Any instructor will certainly understand thechallenge of finding the appropriate mix of activities for all the students who take their courses ifthey consider the data from the ILS carefully. It is certainly challenging to find the bestcombination of activities for a large number of individual learners, each having their own uniqueneeds. The research literature tells us to use an approach that is most effective