Assessment
Assessment takes many forms, from a simple quiz to customizable and complex projects. Explore some of the various tips, options, and ideas for implementing and improving assessment in your courses.
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Commonwealth Connections: Instructor Day Spring 2023
Join us for a half-day, virtual event focusing on strategies for teaching the whole student. This event will feature an instructor panel and a student panel, followed by an open...
Reflection Tool – Exam Wrapper
The Exam Wrapper is a tool to facilitate student reflection after an exam and to promote metacognition as students prepare for the next exam.
Using Learning Mastery in the Canvas Gradebook
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The vast majority of students pass their courses and progress through their major even as they accumulate gaps in their knowledge. The Mastery approach prevents these gaps by making individualized...
Switching it Up: Using Adobe Spark (Adobe Express) for Course Assessment
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Join us to learn creative ways of using Adobe Spark Post and Video for both course content assessment and student reflection. This session may be of interest to faculty who...
Reducing Students’ Temptation to Cheat
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The high stakes exam fosters a strong temptation to cheat. Rather than focus on policing that exam, consider changing your approach to assessment. In this session, faculty share their approaches...
Providing Feedback That Students Will Use
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Feedback is valuable but only when students take advantage of it. In this session, presenters will provide examples of how and when to provide useful feedback to your students and...
Perusall: A Collaborative/Social Annotation Tool
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Faculty will discuss their use of Perusall for building community in their courses and increasing content engagement with journal articles, popular news articles, podcasts, and videos. Panelists will discuss lessons...
Introspection Toward Academic Engagement
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Back to basics reflection on our core principles and broader professional goals and the value of these reflective “real life” practices for our students and ourselves. The session examines several...
Instructor Panel (Instructor Day, Spring 2022)
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Instructors will share their perspectives, experiences, and tips for starting the semester in a way that fosters a sense of community, motivation, and inclusivity in their classrooms.
Incremental Learning Strategies
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Teachers and students can benefit from assignments that promote incremental learning. We may all benefit from designing and rewarding step-by-step project development, re-assessment opportunities, and academic integrity.
Increasing Student Engagement with Top Hat
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The University has a new tool to enhance student participation in your courses. Top Hat is a cloud-based audience participation solution with presentations, questions, and assignments built-in. In this session,...
Creative Assessments that Positively Affect Learning Outcomes
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Joshua Parcha and Lori Reno discuss and share examples of successful implementation of creative assessments in their courses and its benefits to students achieving learning objectives.
From Gen Ed To Grad School: Active Reading With Perusall
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Do you ever struggle with getting students to engage closely with readings, or talk specifically about a text? Gina and Lindsey will talk about their experience using Perusall, an online...
Engaging Students through Peer Review in Both Remote and Residential Courses
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Allowing students to review each other’s work enhances student engagement in courses. They interact with each other and the content of the course. This session discusses two different techniques that...
Grading Effort and Process: How Rethinking What to Emphasize in Grading Impacts Student Learning Outcomes
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This session will outline how two instructors revamped their grading processes for better student learning outcomes and more efficient grading by the instructors.
Tools to Facilitate STEM-based Assessments
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This session will explore solutions allowing students to receive helpful feedback to homework, quizzes, and exams while minimizing academic dishonesty by looking at 2 tools: MyOpenMath and Gradescope.
Implementing Alternative Grading in Math Courses
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What can a grade convey? In our classes, we track student proficiency in each course learning objective and allow students multiple opportunities to demonstrate their understanding of each objective. This...