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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