Mirror Me, Mirror You - Creating High Quality Self- and Peer-Assessment Activities With Lane Sidebottom & Marlin Schaich

Monday, March 25^th, and Wednesday, March 27^th, 12-1pm

Self- and peer-assessment activities can be a highly effective way to help develop students’ self-regulated learning skills. This session will focus on identifying best practices for creating and implementing these kinds of activities, which require thoughtful planning and careful implementation. Click here for the handouts and below is a video recording of the session:

Coaching for Success – Using Feedback to Boost Student Achievement with Keisha Bosan & Emily Barr

Tuesday, Feb. 26^th, and Thursday, Feb. 28^th 

Detailed, constructive, and timely feedback are essential for student learning and success. But what are some of the essential elements of quality feedback and how can we help students to effectively use this information? This session explored these and other questions - Click here for the handouts for this session and below is a video recording:

The following recording was made of a lunch & learn that was offered on formative assessments (see the description below). There are also handouts for this session. Enjoy!

Making learning visible: Using formal and informal tools to know where students really are! With Drs. Larry Hughes & Hilary Applequist

The professor asks a question and a couple of students answer. But where is the rest of the class in relation to the content? What do they really understand? And where do they need our help? This session will offer formal and informal strategies to more accurately gauge how well our learners are comprehending course concepts/skills. We will also discuss how we can then use these assessments to modify our instruction on-the-fly.