Dr. Fred Mayo explores wide ranging personal and professional development tactics instructors can use to stay relevant and fulfilled.

Matching specific grading rubrics and a student’s writing performance improves the grading process.

Dr. Fred Mayo discusses tactics to objectively grade writing assignments for instructors and students. 

Reflection, reaction and term papers – giving them ample thought from an instructor’s point of view.

Keep students growing intellectually by adding student-developed assignments that add spark, imagination and encourage students to take responsibility for their academic growth.

Dr. Mayo finishes the final installment of his test-taking series with strategies for reviewing, practicing and relaxing before tests.

Clear test instructions, question order and different types of questions – more than multiple choice – help students show what they know. 

Dr. Fred Mayo, CHE, CHT, directly addresses students about sound test-taking strategies to help build their confidence and reduce test-taking anxieties.

Dr. Fred Mayo shares test creation tips and offers ways to reduce student test-taking anxiety. “A good test question is like a clean window; it does not get in the way of seeing what the student does and does not know.” Mary Ellen Weimer

Dr. Fred Mayo, CHE, CHT, discusses how self-evaluation helps students become more objective about the quality of their online work. And, that objectivity carries over to peer-evaluation too.