Posts Tagged ‘assessment methods’
October 19 - Grading Practices: Liabilities of the Points System
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog
The November issue of The Teaching Professor newsletter contains highlights from a speech given by Diane L. Pike at the 2010 Midwest Sociological Society meeting and subsequently published in the reference below. It’s a great speech that identifies three dead ideas in teaching and the tyranny that results from holding those beliefs.
July 21 - Getting a Balanced Picture of Student Learning
By: Mary Bart in Educational Assessment
From local and external standards to norm-referenced and value-added benchmarks, to name just a few, there is no shortage of educational assessment options to use. The question everyone wants answered, however, is ‘Which one is the best?’
May 4 - How Good Is Good Enough? Setting Benchmarks or Standards
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
More and more, assessments are playing a key role in your institution’s accreditation and funding. And more and more, they’re shaping your administration’s decisions about proper allocation of limited resources. This seminar will show you will show how to make sure your assessments are producing valid, meaningful measures of student success.
May 4 - Keys to a Culture of Assessment: Value and Respect
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
We have long moved past the question of whether or even how to assess. Now the issue is how to analyze and apply the data. This seminar will provide concrete ideas and proven strategies for creating a healthy, collaborative, and respectful culture of assessment, success, and constant improvement on your campus.
February 23 - Group Exams and Quizzes: The Benefits of Student Collaboration
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog
Have you ever used any sort of group testing activity? The approach is not without benefits. Most students find exams enormously stressful and abundant research documents that high levels of test anxiety can compromise performance. Said more bluntly, students can know the information, but be so anxious they can’t summon it for the exam. Letting students work together on test questions reduces that anxiety considerably. It could be a case of “misery loves company” or the “two heads are better than one” scenario.
November 2 - Alternative Grading Methods for the College Classroom
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Educational Assessment
Students are very motivated by grades—we all know that. For that reason, it’s useful to consider alternative approaches that might affect not just the motivation to get the grade, but the motivation to learn and develop important skills. Here are highlights from two articles that propose these kinds of intriguing alternatives.
July 20 - Effective Teaching Strategies: Six Keys to Classroom Excellence
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Effective Teaching Strategies
What are makes an effective teacher?
This particular list of characteristics appears in an excellent book that is all but unknown in the states, Learning to Teach in Higher Education, by noted scholar Paul Ramsden.
July 6 - Educational Assessment Options and Opportunities
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Educational Assessment, Teaching and Learning
As interest in scholarly work on teaching and learning continues to grow and more faculty are trying their hands at work in this arena, materials are needed that summarize the available methods and approaches used in systematic analyses of classroom practices and learning outcomes. Just such a resource appeared last year in the Journal of Engineering Education…
