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Michael deBraga

Michael deBraga is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. He has a Ph.D. in Paleontology from the University of Toronto, an M.Sc. in Evolutionary Biology from McGill University and a B.Ed. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). He has 20 years of teaching experience in both public and post-secondary education, and has focused on approaches to the development of critical thinking skills and how they can be enhanced through innovative teaching and assessment practices.

  1. How to Use Formative Assessment to Improve Subject Mastery

    According to Michael deBraga, Top Scholar and Associate Professor at the Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre in the University of Toronto, students are often more focused on marks than mastery. In this blog post, he describes a couple of ways to you can nudge them in the direction of understanding rather than repetition—by making some simple changes to the way you assess them