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Moving Fast, Getting Close: How to Skim with Intention

By Sylvie Thode, English Teaching Effectiveness Award Essay, 2025 Skimming can get a bad rap, especially in the literature or composition classroom. In reading too fast, the story goes, students risk missing the point of a text or blazing past the wonders of its language. But for many…

Enhancing Student Confidence and Competency in Data Analysis

By Xueqin Lin, School of Education Teaching Effectiveness Award Essay, 2025 One of the challenges I encountered while teaching lab sessions for EDUC 293A: Data Analysis in Education Research in Fall 2025 was supporting students struggling with statistical software, particularly Stata. One student, who had no…