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83 books match the query 'College students' and 3 start with h
Hidden Inequities in Labor-Based Contract Grading
Ellen C. Carillo
Utah State University Press, 2021
Current Arguments in Composition Series
The Hidden Inequities in Labor-Based Contract Grading intervenes in the increasingly popular practice of labor-based grading by expanding the scope of this assessment practice to include students who are disabled and multiply marginalized. Through the lens of disability studies, the book critiques the assumption that labor is a neutral measure by which to assess students and explores how labor-based grading contracts put certain groups of students at a disadvantage. Ellen C. Carillo offers engagement-based grading contracts as an alternative that would provide a more equitable assessment model for students of color, those with disabilities, and students who are multiply marginalized.
This short book explores the history of labor-based grading contracts, reviews the scholarship on this assessment tool, highlights the ways in which it normalizes labor as an unbiased tool, and demonstrates how to extend the conversation in new and generative ways both in research and in classrooms. Carillo encourages instructors to reflect on their assessment practices by demonstrating how even assessment methods that are designed through a social-justice lens may unintentionally privilege some students over others.
Hillel at Michigan, 1926/27-1945
Struggles of Jewish Identity in a Pivotal EraAndrei S. Markovits and Kenneth Garner
Michigan Publishing Services, 2016
The study analyzes Hillel's challenges as a big-tent, catch-all institution trying to represent all Jewish students on campus regardless of their religious orientation, cultural preferences, and ideological predilections. It looks at Hillel's interactions with the then powerful Jewish fraternities and sororities that provided the main locus of Jewish life on campus at the time, as well as its relations with the University's leadership and many of its cultural and political constituencies. Most of these activities occurred at a time when anti-Semitism was rife in the United States, particularly in the larger Detroit area, home to Henry Ford and Father Charles Edward Coughlin.
How to Study
Suggestions for High-School and College StudentsArthur W. Kornhauser
University of Chicago Press, 1993
*Mastering rather than just memorizing material
*Learning the secrets of mental preparation before tackling difficult assignments or exams
*Strengthening skills for better reading, note taking, and listening
*Improving use of time in the classroom, the library, and at home
It offers a wealth of advice, from the commonsensical ("Never begin study immediately after eating" and "Check every tendency to daydream") to the more psychological ("Use your knowledge by thinking, talking, and writing about the things you are learning").
Thoroughly revised and updated, this powerful little book can help any motivated and capable student work smarter, not just harder, from high school through college.
When he wrote How to Study Arthur W. Kornhauser (1896-1990) was associate professor of business psychology at the University of Chicago.