The newly-published 3rd edition of Classroom Assessment Techniques: Formative Feedback Tools for College and University Teachers includes over 50 Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) you can use to quickly gauge your students’ learning, help them organize course material, and obtain feedback about their learning. One of the simplest and most useful CATs is the Muddiest Point…. Read more »
Starting Your Class on the Right Foot
This post was written by Lisa Kurz from the CITL and Eric Metzler from the Kelley School of Business. While your syllabus might be your first point of contact with your students at the beginning of a semester, the first day of class is also critical. That’s when students form their first impressions of the… Read more »
Call for Final Applications: Implementing Innovative Grading Practices, Inaugural Cohort Spring 2024
Last semester, Kelley School of Business Communication and Professional Skills lecturers Joe Packowski and Emily Esola elicited responses from faculty to gauge interest in a professional development opportunity to implement specifications grading into their courses. We are excited to announce that we are ready to launch our first “Implementing Specs Grading” faculty learning community, which… Read more »
Implementing the innovative grading practice of Specs Grading into your course
Are you interested in grading methods that take the unnecessary stress out of the process, saving you considerable time and mental energy without sacrificing rigor? If so, you might be interested in innovative or alternative grading, a broader umbrella term for assessment practices which eliminate or greatly reduce the usage of assigned points and letter… Read more »
Building Metacognition and Growth Mindset with Exam Wrappers
When you return a graded exam to your students, you know they’re going to focus in on the grade, to the exclusion of everything else. That’s understandable, but problematic: there’s a lot more information in a graded exam than just the grade – and it’s information that students could use to improve their performance. They… Read more »
Getting Mid-Semester Feedback from your Students
Perhaps you’re trying a new teaching strategy this semester, or you’re teaching a new course and you wonder what your students think of it. Or you want to avoid surprises in your end-of-semester evaluations. All of these are reasons get some feedback from your students through a mid-semester evaluation. A mid-semester evaluation gives you an… Read more »