This table shows the amount of time students are expected to spend on out-of-class work each week, proportional to the number of credit hours they've registered for. (Graphic by Chuck Dearden) ...

Peter Schmidt’s “Use of Part-Time Instructors Tied to Lower Student Success” (The Chronicle. November 14) made me think about my own situation as an adjunct instructor. During my first year of ...

I recently consulted with a Ph.D. student who was logging long nights and weekends in her office. I knew she was trying to revise her dissertation into a book and complete a book proposal, but I soon ...

Eleventh-grade students and teachers are spending extraordinary amounts of class time preparing for ACT, but the intense focus on test strategies and item practice is hurting, not helping, performance ...

About 24 years ago, a student asked to interview me for a class assignment. He posed an interesting question: “What is the most challenging part of teaching?’ I still periodically think about this ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. The anxiety of high school juniors—and their parents—over taking college-entrance exams is creating a market force for the test-preparation industry. Dozens of ...

Study involved marriage prep classes in different parts of the country (none from BYU) After participating in marriage education programs, couples were significantly better at communicating The study ...