One way of looking at a doctoral program in anthropology (or in anything else) is as one of those "function" problems in math, where a number goes into a box and comes out as a different number, and ...

This is a GradHacker post by Stephanie Hedge, a PhD candidate at Ball State University in Rhetoric and Composition, @slhedge A few months ago, I wrote a GradHacker post on studying for comprehensive ...

When most people think of tests, they think about things they TAKE. Especially this time of year, when students are hunkered down for finals. But I'm a professor. When I think of tests, I think of ...

Sian Beilock, lead author of a new study appearing this month in the journal Science, said writing about test-related worries for 10 minutes immediately before taking an exam is an effective way to ...