Table 1

Enhancing Intellectual Humility

To enhance intellectual humility among students, faculty can:

  • increase assessments and periodic quizzes, grading, and feedback;

  • create devil advocacy groups;

  • have anonymous students in class provide feedback;

  • request student evaluations of one another’s opinions;

  • encourage role play in class;

  • create cognitive dissonance by challenging students’ opinions with troubling counter examples;

  • have students perform community outreach;

  • implement students’ self-assessment;

  • conduct personality inventories;

  • increase perspective taking and self-awareness;

  • minimize unrealistic expectations that might accompany a sense of entitlement;

  • invite other faculty who model humility;

  • model the humble reception of feedback from students;

  • suggest that the classroom is an alliance between the instructor and the students; and

  • use case studies

Source: Adapted from Bergman et al. (2010).

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