‘Grading’
Upcoming event: Strategies for Grading
Sep. 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 with a variety of grading strategies and address questions like ‘What kind of feedback should...
Upcoming Event: Effective and Efficient Grading (New & Returning Faculty Only)
Aug. 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 will come away with strategies, resources, and tips for establishing grading criteria and rubrics for...
Student-Created Infographics and a Seated Poster Session: Two Experiments in Teaching Statistics
Jun. 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 the students and to reflect the growing importance of visualization techniques in statistics, I added...
From the Stacks…
Apr. 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 purposes of assessment: measuring learning for both student and teacher so that instruction can be...
Upcoming Event: Grading Effectively & Efficiently
Feb. 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 stress for instructors. How do you know if you’re being fair in your assessment of...
Upcoming workshops address topics Vanderbilt TAs need to know about
Jan. 25, 2012—Clickers, Clickers Everywhere Clickers are popping up in classrooms across the university – in physics, math, psychology, biomedical engineering – and other universities are seeing the same increase in use. And it’s easy to see why – clickers have been proven to increase class participation and improve attendance, assess class understanding of a topic, and...
From a Student’s View: Distributions of Grades
Apr. 14, 2011—This is a guest post by Travis Meyer, Vanderbilt Class of 2012 and biomedical engineering major. The post is part of our spring “From a Student’s View” blog series. We occasionally feature guest posts here on the blog as part of our efforts to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning among Vanderbilt faculty, students, and...
Finding the Time to Teach Part 5 – Grade More Efficiently
Apr. 8, 2011—Finding the Time to Teach Part 5 – Grade More Efficiently is the fifth of a series of posts written by CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow, Lily Claiborne. These blog posts are intended to share ideas for prioritizing, planning, working efficiently, and avoiding procrastination – resulting in a more balanced, successful life in academia. In my GradSTEP...
What Should You Do When Student Evaluations Are Wrong?
Mar. 10, 2011—by Derek Bruff, Assistant Director Over on the ProfHacker blog today, Vanderbilt PhD alumna Heather Whitney shares her recent experience discovering that students were saying things on her end-of-course feedback survey that were verifiably incorrect. Several students complained that they felt it unfair that they weren’t told how their final projects were going to be...
From a Student’s View: What Does an A Mean?
Feb. 14, 2011—This is a guest post by Xiaoyu Qi, Vanderbilt Class of 2012, the first in our spring “From a Student’s View” blog series. We occasionally feature guest posts here on the blog as part of our efforts to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning among Vanderbilt faculty, students, and staff. We recognize that everyone’s teaching...