Reeling in the Big Fish: Changing Pedagogy to Encourage the Completion of Reading Assignments

College Teaching

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 195-200

  Carney, Amy G ^a   Fry, Sara Winstead ^a   Gabriele, Rosaria V ^a   Ballard, Michelle ^b  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

assessment methods; reading assignments; testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051873364     PISSN: 87567555     EISSN: 19308299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/CTCH.56.4.195-200     Document Type: Article

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