Using Student Feedback to Improve Your Teaching
Self-review and continual improvement of ones teaching is an important factor in maintaining your enthusiasm for teaching and in your own professional growth as a faculty member. In addition to...
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Feedback is an essential part of the process of learning, but nowhere is it more anxiously sought by students than in their distance education courses. Many students find the DE environment to be cold...
View ArticleThe Art of Feedback
Years ago, when my students disputed small incremental differences in their grades (why a B+ and not an A-?) I used to quip, Remember that grading is an art, not a science. Feedback, both that which...
View ArticleAssessment, Feedback and Rubrics
Assessment Simply said, assessment is about identifying what students should learn and then determining how well a student has learned. Assessments should grow out of the learning objectives that have...
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CATs in the Classroom: Classroom Assessment Techniques
Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross (1993), compiled the sourcebook, Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers, that describes methods and techniques for use as models for...
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An Introduction to the Power of Rubrics
As UMUC faculty move to detailed definition and assessment of student learning outcomes, the use of grading rubrics and other holistic assessment tools is taking on increasing prominence. An...
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The Power of Rubics - Part 1 Transcript
Main Article:An Introduction to the Power of Rubrics Presentation by Dr. Stella C.S. Porto Part I, Introduction: Defining Holistic Assessment Transcript of Video, with PPT images Graduate School...
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The Power of Rubics - Part 2 Transcript
Main Article:An Introduction to the Power of RubricsPresentation by Dr. Stella C.S. Porto Part II, Defining Rubrics and their BenefitsTranscript of Video, with PPT images Graduate School Faculty...
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The Power of Rubics - Part 3 Transcript
Main Article:An Introduction to the Power of RubricsPresentation by Dr. Stella C.S. Porto Part III, Process of Developing and Using Rubrics Transcript of Video, with PPT images Graduate School Faculty...
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The Power of Rubics - Part 4 Transcript
Main Article:An Introduction to the Power of RubricsPresentation by Dr. Stella C.S. Porto Part IV, Two Examples (Porto), and References Transcript of Video, with PPT images Graduate School Faculty...
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