By Lawrence Biemiller, Chronicle of Higher Ed
The researchers also say, perhaps unsurprisingly, that what mattered most was how hard students worked. “Measures of student effort trump all other variables tested for their relationships to student success,” they write, “including demographic descriptions of the students, course subject matter, and student use of support services.” They go on to conclude, optimistically, that the university has learned from the spring experience: “The faculty members who taught these courses, although they had to contend with major difficulties along the way, believe that the content that has been developed has tremendous potential to advance students’ critical-thinking and problem-solving abilities.”
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