Ask Professor Pedagogy: Grading Efficiently

April 19, 2013 — Ask Professor Pedagogy is a twice monthly advice column written by Center for Teaching staff. One aspect of our mission is to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning, so we welcome questions and concerns that arise in the classroom; particularly...... KEEP READING »

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Ask Professor Pedagogy: Assessment Suggestions for Large Lecture Classes

February 22, 2013 — Ask Professor Pedagogy is a twice monthly advice column written by Center for Teaching staff. One aspect of our mission is to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning, so we welcome questions and concerns that arise in the classroom; particularly...... KEEP READING »

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Grading Efficiently: Finding the Time to Grade Fairly

January 25, 2013 — Teaching Affiliates John Martin (Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering) and Killian Quigley (Graduate Student, English) discuss the upcoming gradSTEP session: Grading Efficiently: Finding the Time to Grade Fairly.   Held in January each year, GradSTEP provides several workshops and discussions on teaching,...... KEEP READING »

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Ask Professor Pedagogy: A Mountain of Grading

November 30, 2012 — Ask Professor Pedagogy is a twice monthly advice column written by Center for Teaching staff. One aspect of our mission is to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning, so we welcome questions and concerns that arise in the classroom; particularly...... KEEP READING »

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Strategies for Grading Workshop: Additional Resources

September 13, 2012 — CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow, Beth Koontz, offers additional resources on grading and assessing student work. The CFT recently hosted a teaching workshop on Effective and Efficient Grading focusing on the purposes of grading and how to grade in ways that...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Active Learning, Assessment, Course Design, Grading, Student Motivation
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Upcoming event: Strategies for Grading

September 6, 2012 — Join us for this upcoming Teaching Workshop! Strategies for Grading Date & Time: Thursday, September 13  4:10-5:30pm Grading can be a source of stress for TAs, especially at the beginning of your graduate career. This hands-on workshop will familiarize participants...... KEEP READING »

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Upcoming Event: Effective and Efficient Grading (New & Returning Faculty Only)

August 14, 2012 — Join us for this upcoming Teaching Workshop! Effective and Efficient Grading  (Faculty Only)  Date & Time: Tuesday, August 21 11:00am-1:00pm This workshop will focus on grading in ways that help students learn more deeply and save time for the instructor.  Participants...... KEEP READING »

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Student-Created Infographics and a Seated Poster Session: Two Experiments in Teaching Statistics

June 4, 2012 — by CFT Director Derek Bruff This past spring I taught Math 216, an introduction to statistics for engineering majors, for the fourth time in recent years. In order to make the course a bit more lively for me and for...... KEEP READING »

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From the Stacks…

April 7, 2012 — Beyond Tests and Quizzes : Creative Assessments in the College Classroom by Richard J. Mezeske From the publisher… Because the drive toward external assessment speaks almost exclusively in terms of standardized testing, we need to be reminded of the internal...... KEEP READING »

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Upcoming Event: Grading Effectively & Efficiently

February 15, 2012 — Join us for this upcoming teaching workshop! Grading Effectively & Efficiently Date & Time:      February 22, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator:           Leanna Fuller, Graduate Teaching Fellow Format:                Teaching Workshop Audience:           Graduate Students and Post-Docs Grading can be a source of...... KEEP READING »

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