Yesterday’s post asked folks how they define academic rigor. I asked the right people the right question! The answers were thoughtful, wide-ranging, plentiful and sometimes even impassioned. Best.

Before joining the world of education, my mother tongue consisted mostly of an abbreviated written and verbal vocabulary. Medical jargon is composed of an untold number of symbols and acronyms that ...

To continuously improve the quality of research funded by the National Institutes of Health, five new grants will launch the Initiative to Improve Education in the Principles of Rigorous Research.

Policymakers have called for more rigor in the Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) system for over three decades — at least since the Goldwater-Nichols Act, the Skelton Panel of 1989, and ...

It can seem like the two groups of instructors, both of whom care about teaching, are talking past each other — perhaps from different planets. Given all of this, some have suggested that “rigor” has ...

You sure see that word around a lot these days in education circles, so it’s definitely a timely question. Thanks, Donna, for asking it! My three guest responses today -- from Barbara R. Blackburn, ...

I got an email from a fellow edu-blogger a couple of days ago asking for my input on the subject of academic rigor. Specifically this person asked: I got an email from a fellow edu-blogger a couple of ...

This essay is a collaboration with Robert Hoffman and is based on a report by Klein et al. (2021) that was prepared for the Defense Advanced Research and Projects Agency. This essay is about ...