- Background Knowledge Probe: This is a short, simple, focused questionnaire that students fill out at the beginning of a course or start of a new unit that helps teachers identify the best starting point for the class as a whole.
- Jigsaw: Students work in small groups to develop knowledge about a given topic before teaching what they have learned to another group.
- Support a Statement: The instructor provides students with a provocative statement and prompts them to locate details, examples, or data in their lecture notes to support the statement.
- Team Jeopardy: A game in which student teams take turns selecting a square from a grid that is organized vertically by category and horizontally by difficulty. Each square shows the number of points the team can earn if they answer a question correctly, and more challenging questions have the potential to earn more points.
- Think-Pair-Share: The instructor poses a question, gives students a few minutes to think about a response, and then asks students to share their ideas with a partner. Hence Think-Pair-Share.
- Comprehensive Factor List: Students write all the relevant factors they can think of about a specific topic, drawing from course content and personal experiences.
- Crib Cards: Three by five-inch index cards that students create to use on exams, on which they write whatever information they believe will be useful to them.
- Individual Readiness Assurance Tests: Closed-book quizzes that students complete after an out-of-class reading, video, or other homework assignment.
- Active Reading Documents: Carefully prepared forms that guide students through the process of critical and careful reading.
- Guided Notes: The instructor provides a set of partial notes that students complete during the lecture, focusing their attention on key points.
- Lecture Wrapper: A tool for teaching students self-monitoring behavior as they identify key points from a lecture and then compare their points to the instructor’s list of points.
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