If you’re accustomed to teaching in-person, I’m sure hybrid or online teaching has required some changes to your lessons. At first glance, the modalities of synchronous online classrooms and in-person classrooms may seem at odds. However, many types of assessments (e.g., exams, essays, quizzes, discussions) can be used for both synchronous online and face-to-face (f2f)… Read more »
Assessment
A Faculty Approach to Equitable Exams
This is a guest post by Dr. Denvil Duncan, Associate Professor in the O’Neill School and Faculty Chair of the Hudson & Holland Scholars Program. Many of us are trying to figure out how to assess students online. CITL has already shared resources that will aid in this process. Handling Exams when your Course Unexpectedly… Read more »
Tips for Creating Open Book Exams
This post is part of our Keep Teaching blog series meant to help IU instructors move their classes online quickly due to COVID-19. For more detailed resources, see the Keep Teaching website. As we move further into this unprecedented semester of shifting to remote teaching, we realize that the traditional online exams we had planned… Read more »
Assessing Service-Learning Outcomes and Student Service
Now that we’ve shared fundamental resources for creating a partnership and revising your syllabus to detail service-learning, let’s turn an eye to assessment. Assessment of community-engaged teaching and learning follows the same practices of assessing student learning, with some specialized tools particular to the method. While targeted at service-learning, the support offered below works for… Read more »
I’ve Got Top Hat (Clickers)…Now What?
There was much cheering in August when IU signed an enterprise agreement with Top Hat, making this “clicker” solution free for IU students. Many faculty members have jumped at this opportunity to engage students in class and discover in real time what students are understanding and what they are not. But now that you’ve got… Read more »
Taking the Pulse of Your Class with a Mid-Semester Evaluation
Perhaps you’re trying a new teaching strategy or 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 opportunity to get… Read more »