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Structured Feedback is a mid-semester learning/assessment tool designed to provide feedback to students and for the instructor to adjust teaching…
Assessment and Feedback Feedback, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
Six ways to give feedback effectively and efficiently: collective oral reports, collective written reports, model answers with "exploded"…
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Feedback, Formative Assessment
A feedback method of efficiently giving high quality feedback through the use of IT and comment banks has been piloted on a large cohort of students…
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Feedback, Formative Assessment
This study examines how student progress in college, indicated by the performance difference between freshmen and seniors after controlling for…
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Summative Assessment
The research presented here demonstrates how value-added models can be compared on three criteria: reliability, year-to-year consistency and…
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Summative Assessment, Value Added Assessment
This study describes the results with a promising set of cognitive assessment tools that can be used to measure general as distinct from domain-…
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Summative Assessment, Value Added Assessment
The K. Patricia Cross Academy sponsors a free library of teaching and learning strategies, including videos which can be searched by teaching…
Type: Tutorial
Assessment and Feedback, Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Collaborative Learning
An introduction to classroom assessment techniques (CATs) and a list of examples, including descriptions, suggestions for what to do with the data,…
Type: Website
Assessment and Feedback, Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Formative Assessment
A list of exam and paper alternatives organized by purpose and performance level and guiding questions to assist faculty to determine the types of…
Type: Website
Assessment and Feedback Exam Alternatives, Summative Assessment
A summary of high-impact practices that research suggests increase rates of student retention and student engagement.
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback, Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Collaborative Learning, ePortfolio, Exam Alternatives
Instructions for adding a discussion rubric to Canvas
Assessment and Feedback, Teaching and Learning Strategies Canvas (MyCourses), Discussion, Grading, Rubrics and Checklists
A report on the impact of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL)-sponsored training workshops to educate faculty and staff about CBE…
Type: Report
Assessment and Feedback Competency Based Assessment
The research on formative assessment and feedback is reinterpreted to show how these processes can help students take control of their own learning,…
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Feedback, Formative Assessment
Using comment banks to provide students with better quality feedback while also reducing teacher workload.
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback, Teaching and Learning Strategies Feedback, Formative Assessment
Reviews ways that alternative assessments, also known as authentic assessments, can be used to improve student learning.
Type: Website
Assessment and Feedback Authentic/Case/Project/Problem Based Learning, Exam Alternatives
Alternatives may be advantageous to promote student learning and be more authentic means of students demonstrating what they have learned at the…
Type: Website
Assessment and Feedback Authentic/Case/Project/Problem Based Learning, Exam Alternatives
Open Educational Resources: Getting Started (Scott Kimball, Eleta Exline, Catherine Overson)
Presentation materials available at: /cetl/talk-about-teaching-presentations-summer-2020 (Scroll to find presentation)
Assessment and Feedback, Learning Resources Open Educational Resources (OER)
Performing Assessment and Grading Online (Scott Kimball, Xuan Cai, Fran Keefe, Mike McIntire)
Presentation materials available on the topic of performing assessment and grading online.
Assessment and Feedback Academic Honesty, Authentic/Case/Project/Problem Based Learning
Ideas for rethinking quiz practices.
Type: Report
Assessment and Feedback Formative Assessment, Grading, Summative Assessment
How to write good questions, including considerations for writing multiple choice items that test higher-order thinking.
Type: Website
Assessment and Feedback Formative Assessment, Grading, Summative Assessment