DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Practical Solutions for Faculty: Assessing Learning" training has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
For faculty looking to improve assessments and feedback to help students better succeed, this Online Course provides practical solutions from experienced educators who understand the time restraints you face.
Assessing student learning is an essential part of any college-level class, yet it can be stressful for students and time consuming for faculty. Assessing learning is not just about giving students an exam. It's about measuring learning throughout the course, helping students retain course content as they learn it, and providing meaningful and valuable feedback on assignments and exams.
Practical Solutions for Faculty: Assessing Learning is your guide to helping students succeed through meaningful assignments, well-written assessments, and thought-provoking feedback.
Practical Solutions for Faculty: Assessing Learning is an 8.5 hour course that begins with strategies to create a culture of excellence and foster intrinsic motivation. You'll also be introduced to teaching practices directed to improving cognition and retention as well as guidance in creating assignments and exams to assess learning. Finally, you'll receive proven advice on not only simplifying the grading process, but also how to maximize feedback to impact learning.
This asynchronous course also features transcripts, note-taking guides, supplementary materials, and regular assessments to enhance your learning, as well as a certificate of completion at the end of the course.
Help students master your content! Learn from your brilliant colleagues who have been there before and get the tools to succeed with Practical Solutions for Faculty: Assessing Learning!
Learning Goals
After completing this course, you'll be able to:
- Customize academic-integrity strategies to the discipline taught and level of rigor expected of learners
- Adopt academic-integrity strategies to create and sustain a climate of ethical behavior
- Understand why reusing your old exams is a big mistake
- Have effective strategies for discouraging cheating on assignments
- Construct an assessment system designed to promote mastery learning and reduce cheating
- Reframe or redesign courses to foster intrinsic motivation and reduce the incentive to cheat
- Incorporate frequent, low-stakes assessments that will create deeper learning and increase student self-efficacy, thereby reducing the incentive to cheat
- Encourage communication and honesty in your students
- Define metacognition and explain its role in learning
- Identify how microactivities might be integrated into your class
- Create multiple-choice questions that effectively target different cognitive levels
- Write multiple-choice questions that trigger retrieval learning processes that are known to enhance later recall
- Understand assessment as a holistic, transformative, and authentic means to enhance student learning
- Develop specific strategies for authentic assessments
- Design tests and quizzes to elicit honest responses from students
- Apply principles of positive psychology and neuroscience to create a climate of academic honesty for individual assessments
- Optimize feedback provided to students while being strategic about the time invested in grading
- Create activities to be used in the classroom that reduce the need for individual grading
- Restructure feedback to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes
- Improve the effectiveness of standardized testing by re-conceptualizing the post-exam review into a powerful teaching and learning tool
- Investigate the benefits of classroom teaching through post-exam reviews to deepen student learning
- Identify curricular designs that support the integration of post-exam reviews into course design
Who Will Benefit From This Course:
- Faculty
- Educational Developers
- Instructional Designers
Key Topics Covered:
Setting Expectations for Honesty and Excellence
- Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity
- How Do I Discuss Academic Integrity During the First Class?
- How Can I Ensure Academic Integrity in the Online Classroom? Helping Students Succeed
- Why Students Cheat and What We Can Do about It
- Using Interleaving in Course Design to Improve Retention
- How Can Promoting Academic Integrity Improve Learning Outcomes for Students? Assignments to Assess Learning
- How Can I Assess Students in my Online Classes through Student-created Videos?
- How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention? Assessments
- Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions
- Using Authentic Assessment to Assess Student Learning
- How Can I Increase Exam Security with Custom Question Banks?
- How Can I Ensure Academic Honesty in My Online Assessments?? Grading and Feedback
- How Can I Grade in Less Time with Greater Impact?
- How Can I Create Authentic Engagement Through Feedback Dialogue?
- How Can Post-Exam Reviews Become a Powerful Teaching Strategy?
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