Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Series: Are Students Learning What I Think I'm Teaching?: Examples of Classroom Assessment
Wednesday, April 14
11:45-1:15 Buntrock 142
Mary Walczak, Chemistry, and 2003-04 CILA Associate
Shelly Dickinson, Psychology
Paul Jackson, Chemistry
What are students learning in my classroom? How can I help them learn better? Classroom Assessment Techniques, short, focused inquiries that start a "feedback loop", can help answer these very important questions. By using any of several easy-to-implement techniques, instructors can quickly find out which concepts or topics their students understand as well as those that they find confusing. In this session, presenters and participants will use the completed Angelo and Cross teaching goals inventory to help make their course goals explicit. Then the presenters will provide examples of different classroom assessment techniques they have used to elucidate particular student learning gains, and the kinds of information those assessments have provided.
A copy of the inventory to fill out for one course, and a list of assessment techniques, will be sent to participants on Monday.
