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Lecture-Tutorials “How-To”
A Revised Bulleted Guide

In This Month’s Teaching Strategy, we revisit our previous Lecture-Tutorials How-To Bulleted Guide with an expanded, more comprehensive set of guidelines. We hope you’ll find it even more helpful than our first How-To guide. And, just a reminder, what is a Lecture-Tutorial anyway?... More >>
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Astronomy Concept Inventories: Diagnosing Our Own Instruction

Revisiting our CAE Teaching Excellence Workshops
Assessment drives student learning, and it should drive our instruction (). In physics, the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) has been used by instructors... More >>
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What “Makes the Grade”?

Bridging the Gap Between Instructor and Student Expectations
How many times during a semester do we answer questions about grades? “Why didn’t I get full credit for the homework?” “How can I get an A in this class?” “What... More >>
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Guest Moderation:

The Tradition Continues
It’s hard to believe our Astrolrner@CAE Guest Moderation Program is entering its third year… Over the past year, Paul Robinson has been doing such a fine... More >>
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Saluting Our Nation's Independence
NASA Dryden's four F/A-18 mission support aircraft flew in formation for a pilot proficiency flight on Nov. 24, 2008, in this image. NASA Dryden photographer...... Read More >>
CAE is funded through the generous contributions of the NASA JPL Exoplanet Exploration Public Engagement Program and the Spitzer Education and Public Outreach Program. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0715517, a CCLI Phase III Grant for the Collaboration of Astronomy Teaching Scholars (CATS). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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