Creating tasks with a focus on students’ autonomy—by providing choices, for example—helps them see the relevance of homework.

Effective course design begins with understanding the process of thinking and learning. These processes are commonly termed "metacognition." Metacognition includes a critical awareness of one’s ...

Course-embedded assessment is when assigned work or exams (required by a course and graded as part of that course) are also used as evidence of learning for program assessment. Designing assignment ...

The Assignments feature in Brightspace enables you to create a space for learners to submit their work as files, text, video, etc. while providing instructors with a convenient way to score and ...

Although the homework wars of past years seems to have subsided, the debate continues over whether kids benefit from after-school assignments. Parents are divided on the value of homework. Some ...

The necessity of homework has been a subject of debate since at least as far back as the 1890s, according to Joyce L. Epstein, co-director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships ...

In a new study, the Center for American Progress delves into the quality of American homework assignments and finds a lot of them don't demand much from students besides basic skills. The study ...

Google is setting out to make plagiarism harder than ever. The search giant today announced the launch of Assignments, a new grading software for higher education instructors who use G Suite for ...

How long is your child’s workweek? Thirty hours? Forty? Would it surprise you to learn that some elementary school kids have workweeks comparable to adults’ schedules? For most children, mandatory ...