Educational Assessment
All enterprises require measurement in order to enable their management. Testing, grading and evaluation of education programs are the metrics by which we measure students, teachers and schools.
March 16, 2010
Online Grade Books Provide Transparency, Accountability
I started using an online grade book as a convenience for myself. Here, finally, was a grade book that couldn’t get lost or stolen, and it would be automatically backed ... Read more »
February 3, 2010
Extra Credit Assignments: An Innovative Approach
My students are always asking for opportunities to earn bonus points. I offer a variety of assignments during the semester, but they still want bonus points, which they seem to ... Read more »
January 12, 2010
Are Your Students Career-Ready? Create a Rubric to Find out
Have you ever wondered if what you teach and how you teach it results in career-ready students? Have you ever wondered if your expectations for student learning outcomes match what ... Read more »
January 5, 2010
Making Peer Assessment Work for You
“We cannot assume … that students will learn how to become better group members simply by participating in group activities.” Diane Baker (reference below) makes this observation in a first-rate ... Read more »
January 4, 2010
Improving Your Assessment Processes: Q&A with Linda Suskie
It’s a new year, but the same old challenges exist. Given today’s financial constraints, colleges and universities are working harder than ever to be careful stewards of limited resources and ... Read more »
November 16, 2009
A New Approach to Grading Student Essays
As a very young teacher, I remember pulling all-nighters to get my students’ essays back within the one-week limit I set for myself. Even in those days this “cram grading” ... Read more »
October 21, 2009
So You Have Assessed Student Learning. Now What?
Of all the activities that go into educational assessment, ironically two of most rewarding also are two of the most overlooked: 1). sharing the results with stakeholders and 2). using ... Read more »
October 9, 2009
Using Self-Check Exercises to Assess Online Learning
The intermediate statistics class I took quite a number of years ago had two types of learners at the outset—those who were worried about passing the course and those who ... Read more »
October 6, 2009
Benefits of a Student Self-Grading Model
Given student motivation to get grades and the prevalence of cheating, most faculty would never seriously consider letting students grade their own work. However, self-grading, especially of homework, does accrue ... Read more »
September 28, 2009
For the Best Assessment Standards Try the Combo Platter
If there’s a holy grail in higher education, it just might be the perfect assessment benchmark. From local and external standards to norm-referenced and value-added benchmarks, to name just a ... Read more »
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Topics
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Asynchronous Learning and Trends
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Educational Assessment
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Effective Classroom Management
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Effective Teaching Strategies
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Curriculum Development
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Instructional Design
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Faculty Development
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Faculty Evaluation
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Learning Styles
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Distance Learning
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Online Education
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Philosophy of Teaching
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Learning Communities
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Teaching and Learning
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Trends in Higher Education
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Teaching Careers
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Community College
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