Resources

Resource Category Topic
A tool for developing your course using Backward Design methodology.
Type: Tool
Course Design Backward Design, Lesson/Module Planning, Objectives
Using macros in Microsoft Word to create comment banks to more efficiently grade essays.
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Feedback, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
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 “concurrent classroom” with local and remote students attending at the same time is best managed with an assistant to operate Zoom during the…
Technologies for Teaching and Learning HyFlex (Concurrent), Virtual Whiteboard, Web Conferencing, Zoom
Suggestions for using the Zoom whiteboard.
Technologies for Teaching and Learning HyFlex (Concurrent), Virtual Whiteboard, Web Conferencing, Zoom
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
Suggestions for designing and moderating discussions.
Type: Article
Teaching and Learning Strategies Discussion
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
Introduces the cognitive psychology foundation upon which Mayer’s multimedia learning principles are built and then summarizes each principle. 
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Presentation Tools
A summary of research and suggestions for putting metacognition into practice.
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies Cognitively Based Learning Interventions
Suggestions for reducing extraneous cognitive load and enhancing germane cognitive load when designing learning materials.
Type: Website
Teaching and Learning Strategies Cognitively Based Learning Interventions
Mayer’s 12 principles of multimedia instructional design organized into three sections - reducing extraneous processing, managing essential…
Type: Book
Teaching and Learning Strategies Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Presentation Tools
This study measured students' attitude towards group work. "Free riding" and the difficulty in coordinating schedules were identified…
Type: Article
Teaching and Learning Strategies Collaborative Learning