What is it about?
This article offers faculty a weekly beginning-of-class quiz or pedagogical approach called the “hat trick” that incentivizes students’ advance preparation in completing reading or other homework activities for each class.
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Why is it important?
It is common in college undergraduate and graduate courses for some percentage of students to arrive at their on-campus classes not having completed their homework assignments. Unprepared students create the need for faculty to conduct the class and learning activities at a lower level (e.g. having to review the homework assignment) than would be possible if students had done their assigned homework.
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When all students come to class prepared, the students and I, as their instructor, are able to enter into extended and higher-level theory application and engagement with learning activities than would occur if I first had to spend significant amounts of class time reviewing the week’s assignment. Over more than 15 years of using "The Hat Trick," I have found the exercise, as described in this article, rapidly incentivizes students to come to class prepared with their homework completed.
Susan Taft
Kent State University
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This page is a summary of: Incentivizing Students’ Preparation for Class, Management Teaching Review, March 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2379298116633869.
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