Using Grading Strategies to Understand
and Improve Student Learning

Good grading and good teaching go hand in hand. If you haven’t taken a fresh look at your assessment strategies recently, it’s likely that you’re missing some powerful ways to improve your courses and deepen the caliber of learning that takes place in your classroom.

The purpose of this exclusive two-day event is to help you create purposeful, meaningful opportunities for students to learn exactly what you want them to learn.

This workshop is designed to give you the freedom to think in new and innovative ways about how you teach and how you assess student learning. The dual presenters have prepared a full menu of engaging activities for reflecting deliberately and developing the types of assessments that will improve the learning experience in your courses.

In Using Grading Strategies to Understand and Improve Student Learning, a pair of leading experts in classroom assessment will lead you through a concentrated two-day workshop designed to provide you with new tools and insights for redesigning your assessment strategies. At the end of this event, you will understand how and why improving the quality of the assessments you use in your college courses can raise the level of learning in your classroom.

Led by Linda Suskie and Virginia “Ginny” Johnson Anderson, this fast-paced workshop will be an engaging combination of interactive presentations, discussions, small-group breakout exercises, and time for individual reflection and planning.

This exclusive workshop will cover:

• Improving student learning outcomes
• Crafting effective assessment tools, including assignments, scoring guides, and multiple-choice tests
• Examining results and using them to improve teaching and learning
• Articulating what you most want students to learn
• Researching student learning in your classes

Participants will learn how to:

• Include research-based teaching methods in your classes
• Access the latest scholarship on assessment and pedagogy
• Use collected grading information to develop better teaching strategies
• Develop an action plan of steps you can take to understand and improve student learning

Along with a customized action plan for creating a better testing plan at your school, you will also leave this event with a copy of a book by workshop leader Linda Suskie, Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide, as a permanent resource.