Grading & Feedback
As instructors, we often assume that students must learn from us and no others. But feedback on performance is one of the most important factors to learning, and peer feedback can fill in the gaps ...
A lot of students are terribly optimistic about the grade they'll be getting in a course. They start out imagining that they're going to do very well, especially if they've decided it's an easy course. ...
Working well collaboratively is an important skill to teach, but simply putting students together in groups and asking them to work together online doesn't necessarily result in learning. A good way to ensure learning is ...
Have you ever thought, “There has to be a better way!” while grading your online learners' discussions? It is no secret that grading student discussions is time consuming, laborious, and tedious, considering the disproportionate amount ...
“Good job” “Vague” “Grammar” Do they look familiar? Students are used to getting the bulk of their feedback as these sorts of “margin comments” running down the side of their papers. Unfortunately, such comments are of almost ...
Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are valuable tools for helping faculty find out what students are learning and how well they’re learning it. Since the 1988 release of Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers by ...
In winter 2015, I was given the opportunity to design and teach my department's first fully online course, in calculus. Some design challenges emerged in the process, not least of which was the question of ...
Sami Lange Last year, I decided to restructure my Introduction to Information Literacy course with a “build your grade” structure that would provide freedom to choose assignments while ensuring that students learned the core concepts. ...
So many important messages are communicated nonverbally in face-to-face courses. There's tone of voice, facial expressions, gestures, and the use of space—all with the potential to enhance the meaning of the verbal message. In online ...
Athletes are often “graded out” by their coaches after a game, and they always know ahead of time the exact criteria that will be used to grade them. An offensive lineman knows that he will ...
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