Archives: Janna Fox

Monday, March 9, 2015

Carleton professors find the performance in mathematics teaching

By Lesley LeRoux, TLS freelance writer While some might call a lesson in mathematics boring, others see it as a performance, capable of engaging an audience of undergraduates as if they were watching an engrossing film. Such is one of the discoveries from Carleton linguistics professors Natasha Artemeva and Janna Fox’s research on how... More

Monday, April 7, 2014

Assessing education: Using innovative tests to get student success

By: Samantha Wright Allen Janna Fox says she had an unlikely start in diagnostic assessment. “I went into testing because I hate tests,” she laughs. Though her feelings on the matter have changed, that impulse never stopped - assessment has become the Carleton linguistic professor’s life’s work. She says it’s so important because... More

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