Classroom Assessment

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs): An Introduction

Detailed Descriptions with Disciplinary Examples of Selected CATs

Resources: Assessment of Teaching & Learning

Improving Your Teaching: Obtaining Feedback (Adapted from Black, 2000)

Astin, A., et al., (1996). "American association for higher education principles of good practice for assessing student learning."

Dickinson, D. (1995, September). "Assessment terminology: A glossary of useful terms


 

 

 

 

Grading & Testing

Testing

Multiple Choice Questions (IDEA Paper, KSU)

Multiple Choice Questions (UNC)

Essay Tests (IDEA Paper, KSU)

Writing and Grading Essay Questions (UNC)

Strategies for Grading Writing

Commenting Effectively on Student Writing

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Writting

Writing for Learning,Not Just Demonstrating Learning

Pedagogical Theory and Practice: Responding to Student Writing

Sweetland Writing Center - Writing Resources

A Short Guide to College Writing

Teaching with Writing

Harvard Study of Undergraduate Writing

Univeristy of Hawaii's Manoa Writing Program

"Writing to Learn" Professor Erika Lindmena, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Strategies - Teaching with Writing from Virginia Tech's University Writing Program

Writing Across the Curriculum from the University of Richmond

Writing for Learning -- Not Just for Demonstrating Learning by Peter Elbow, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

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Informal Learning

Informal Education and Learning

Student Learning Outside the Classroom: Transcending Artificial Boundaries

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Learning Styles & Strategies

Overview of Learning Styles

Links to Web Articles and a Learning Styles Inventory

Student Learning Styles and Their Implications for Teaching by Susan M. Montgomery & Linda N. Groat, 1998.

Learning Style Can Become Learning Strategies (W.J. Mckeachie, University of Michigan)

VARK – A Guide to Learning Styles

David Kolb on Learning Styles

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Learning As Theory & Practice

Explorations in Learning & Instruction, The Theory Into Practice Database, 2002

Patterns in Education: Linking Theory to Practice

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Techniques For Motivating Students

Capturing and Directing the Motivation to Learn (pdf)

Motivating Students' Best Work

Teaching FAQs: Motivating Students

Tools for Teaching: Motivating Students

Bransford, J., Brown, A., & Cocking, R. (Eds.). (1999). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Davis, B. G. (1993). Motivating Students. In Tools for teaching (Chap. 23). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Davis, B. G., Wood, L., & Wilson, R. C. (1983). Motivating students' best work. In A Berkeley Compendium: Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence.

Nash, R., Wild, M., & Arlington, P. (2001). Motivating your students. In Effective Instructional Design: An Online Course Template (n.p.)

National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
Maintained at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), this web site contains a collection of case studies developed by faculty members across the sciences along with teaching notes.

University of Oregon, Teaching Effectiveness Program. (2005, November). Motivating Students.

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Study Skills For Learning

Academic Center for Excellence at University of Illinois at Chicago

Study Guides and Strategies

Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!

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Undergraduate Research

 

Council on Undergraduate Research
The Council on Undergraduate Research is a national professional organization that encourages the development of undergraduate research programs by generating awareness and national support. Numerious links to relevant publications from this organization are provided on their web site.

National Science Foundation, Search for an REU site

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  1. Classroom Assessment
  2. Grading & Testing
  3. Writting
  4. Informal Learning
  5. Learning Styles
    & Strategies
  6. Learning as Theory
    & Practice
  7. Techniques For Motivating Studetents
  8. Study Skills For Learning
  9. Undergraduate Research

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