Subject Guides: Faculty Resources Guide: Maximizing Participation

Maximizing Participation

Antidote for Entitled 'Customers'
Bell, S.J. (July 29, 2011) Antidote for entitled 'Customers." Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2011/07/29/antidote-entitled-customers
Classroom Activities for Active Learning
From the Center for Faculty Excellence at UNC, this article discusses active learning questioning techniques, small group, whole class involvement, and reading and writing exercises.
Microthemes
An experiment with very short writings
Microthemes
Offers suggestions for using microthemes in diverse classes across curriculum
Ten Easy Ways to Engage Your Students
What's the Problem with Quiet Students? Anyone? Anyone?
Reda, M.M. (Septemer 5, 2010) The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Why of Class Participation: A Question Worth Asking
Examines the intentions behind class participation, considers the means and associated meanings of its implementation, and suggests new ways for professors to think about and justify it

Student Engagement in the Classroom: An Examination of Student Silence and Participation
Meyer, K.R. (2007) Unpublished manuscript.
Teaching with Your Mouth Shut
Handout. Adapted from Donald Finkel, Teaching with your Mouth Shut (Heinemann, 2000). The McGraw Center.

Classroom Contribution: What Do Students Perceive as Fair Assessment
Pepper, M. B., & Pathak, S. (2008). Journal Of Education for Business.
How to Grade Students' Class Participation
Croxall, B. (May 5, 2010) The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Why and How Instructors Grade Participation in College Courses
Rogers, Susan L. (2009). NERA Conference Proceedings 2009.

Women's Views of the Factors that Encourage and Discourage Classroom Participation
Using Jungian constructs as a lens, we examined the "chilly " classroom dynamic. A content analysis of comments suggested that instructors play a pivotal role in creating a positive climate for women. Suggestions for improving educational environments are offered.
Classroom Contribution: What Do Students Perceive as Fair Assessment
Pepper, M. B., & Pathak, S. (2008). Journal Of Education for Business.

Using Clickers for Deliberate Practice in Five Large Science Courses
Hodges, L. C., Anderson, E. C., Carpenter, T. S., Cui, L., Feeser, E. A., & Gierasch, T. M. (2017). Using clickers for deliberate practice in five large science courses. Journal of College Science Teaching, 47(2), 22-28.
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In this article the authors "share the variety of ways that we use clicker questions to promote deliberate practice in large science courses. Deliberate practice is the use of specifically structured exercises that develop the skills and habits of mind essential to improve performance."
Clickers and online homework in the criminal justice classroom.
Cass, A. I. (2019). Clickers and online homework in the criminal justice classroom: A test study. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 30(3), 333-347. doi:10.1080/10511253.2018.1492733

Lessons Learned from Study Groups
This study of student-facilitated study groups at Brooks Community College explores how students structured the study group experience and what type of interaction occurred during the group sessions.