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.
September 1, 2010
Five Steps to Improving Program-Level Assessment Practices
Student learning outcomes assessment can be defined in a lot of different ways, but Lisa R. Shibley, PhD., assistant vice president for Institutional Assessment and Planning at Millersville University, has ... Read more »
August 6, 2010
Assessing the Degree of Learner-Centeredness
Since Barr and Tagg introduced the concept of the instructional versus the learner-centered paradigms in 1995, higher education institutions across the country have adopted the concept in one form or ... Read more »
June 18, 2010
Self-Assessment Does Not Necessarily Mean Self-Grading
Most faculty judiciously avoid having students self-assess because it seems hopelessly naïve to imagine them being able to look at anything beyond the desired grade. Even so, the ability to ... Read more »
June 3, 2010
Student Internships: An Effective Assessment Model
Internships are integral parts of many professional degree programs. Potentially, they make significant contributions to an educational experience. “Well-organized and carefully supervised programs enhance the student’s ability to integrate academic ... Read more »
May 11, 2010
Learning Outcome Assessment: Creating a Systematic and Transparent Program
Faculty usually hold a set of beliefs that make the whole topic of learning outcome assessment seem boring, useless, or both. This is very unfortunate for a number of reasons. First, ... Read more »
April 22, 2010
Giving Students Multiple Attempts to Improve Test Scores Provides a Powerful Learning Opportunity
Using multiple test trials was something I had never considered until found myself in a newly assigned course with an old syllabus. The previous course, which consisted of 310 total ... Read more »
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 »
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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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