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- The term rigor is widely used by educators to describe instruction, schoolwork, learning experiences, and educational expectations that are academically, intellectually, and personally challenging.
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Dec 29, 2014 · The term rigor is widely used by educators to describe instruction, schoolwork, learning experiences, and educational expectations that are academically, intellectually, and personally challenging. Rigorous learning experiences, for example, help students understand knowledge and concepts that are complex, ambiguous, or contentious, and they ...
Sep 12, 2019 · Academic Rigor: A Comprehensive Definition. Part one of a three-part series. Andria Foote Schwegler. Texas A&M University – Central Texas. September 12, 2019. A Quality Matters White Paper. 2019 QM Quality Matters, Inc. Table of Contents. The Role of Learning in Higher Education.
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May 7, 2015 · A New Definition of Rigor. Rigor doesn’t simply mean giving students more or harder work. Instead, it’s the result of work that challenges students’ thinking in new and interesting ways. By Brian Sztabnik.
- Defining Rigor: Student Success & Learning
- Bringing It Together For Today’S Learners
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Academic rigor is widely considered to be an essential component of the quality of higher education, but research shows that faculty and students define rigor quite differently: 1. For faculty, it’s all about brain work.They tend to see rigor as the interaction between critical thinking, active learning, high expectations, and meaningful content (G...
To help bridge the gap between the faculty and student perspectives, I reviewed the existing researchand formulated a definition of academic rigor that can serve as a baseline for discussions in higher education. For today’s learners, it’s clear that rigor is reflected in a combination of course challenge, learning support, and design.The variables...
As higher education explores ways to provide more flexible, responsive pathways to learners, we must increasingly move away from time-based measures of learning. To do so, we will need a more informed way of understanding academic rigor and its connection to outcomes. It’s clear that course challenge must be married with both design and learning su...
Aug 29, 2013 · Educational rigor refers to instruction, schoolwork, and learning expectations that are academically, intellectually, and personally challenging.
Sep 10, 2019 · Definitions of rigor that are based on comparisons to idiosyncratic personal experiences (Schnee, 2008) and reports of educators assigning higher grades than students earned (Schutz, Drake, & Lessner, 2013) support the concern that what is considered academically rigorous is highly malleable.
Jun 8, 2015 · Dictionaries define rigor as possessing the quality of severity or strictness, of being demanding and difficult. In past decades, the notion of educational rigor was likely to equate to the teacher whose class was “hard” as defined by plentiful homework, difficult tests, and only a few students being awarded an “A.”.
