When it comes to university teaching, we may have reached the point that the old-fashioned thing is the innovative thing. I recently began incorporating pop vocabulary quizzes in my undergraduate ...

You wanted more quizzes, and we’ve delivered! Now you can test your wits every day of the week. Each weekday, your host, Ray Hamel, concocts a challenging set of unique questions on a specific topic.

On end-of-the-year surveys, my English students generally ranked vocabulary assessments as the bane of their existence. A typical student averaged way too many hours studying for a quiz that generally ...