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Increasing Interactivity In Archaeology Courses At The Undergraduate And Graduate Levels, Guy Hepp
Increasing Interactivity In Archaeology Courses At The Undergraduate And Graduate Levels, Guy Hepp
Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy
This project included revisions to ANTH 140: World Civilizations I, the Rise of Civilization and ANTH 616: History and Theory of Archaeology. For ANTH 140, the required readings, lecture content, group activities, and assessment strategies were all significantly changed or completely replaced. For ANTH 616, subtle changes were made to reading response, group discussion, and online group discussion strategies. Both course revisions resulted in improved classroom atmospheres. This was especially the case for ANTH 140, where average and median grades improved and standard deviations in grades decreased. Improvements to ANTH 616, a small seminar course, were too affected by outliers …