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Our quest to discover if teaching practices are instrumental in promoting student wellbeing began with the 2015 Undergraduate Experiences Survey (UES). Our first glimpse at the data suggests that YES! an instructor’s choice of teaching practices does indeed affect student wellbeing.
Students were asked to indicate to what extent each of 10 teaching practices had a positive impact on their wellbeing. Among the 5590 students who responded, the two teaching practices that had the greatest positive impact were:
The full results can be downloaded here. Qualitative input from the students will be shared in part 2.
Now that we have a better idea of the kinds of teaching practices that contribute to student learning and wellbeing, we would love to hear your thoughts and/or ideas! Please feel free to comment below and share with us some of the practices that you find effective in promoting student mental wellbeing!