Student peer assessments provide opportunities for classmates to give and receive meaningful feedback, building valuable skills for both reviewers and recipients. Reviewers develop the ability to ...

A September 2023 report from the Constructive Dialogue Institute found that 45 percent of students are afraid to express their opinions in the classroom out of fear of offending their peers, and ...

One approach to dealing with performance or behavior problems is through communication. Specifically, giving and receiving direct feedback. Feedback gives each party an opportunity to tell their side, ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Colleges and universities often encourage students to engage in healthy debate and expression on ...

Last semester, I took on the daunting task of writing my first junior paper (JP). This was an incredibly significant moment in my academic career, not only for its importance within the Princeton ...

Students participate in the Constructive Dialogue Perspectives program (photo by Scott Kissell). The Office of Transformational and Inclusive Excellence hopes to “expand and embed this program across ...

Educators spend countless hours thinking about grades, talking about them, and doing the work involved in giving them. Many posts on this topic have appeared here over the years, and I’m sure more ...

The end of every Duke semester follows a familiar pattern: exams, papers and a flood of emails urging students to complete course evaluations. Course evaluations aim to “help instructors identify ...

Constructive criticism can benefit professionals in every industry. Gaining a clearer perspective on their performance can help a person grow if they’re open to the input. However, there’s a ...

MAI stands for metacognitive AI agent and is far from well-known ChatGPT since it supports students' independent problem-solving without providing direct answers, distinguishing it from traditional AI ...