This book provides insights into managing the supremely complicated task of assigning a simple letter to a semester's work. This book is intended for faculty seeking to understand how to use assessment to enhance as well as measure performance, and it delivers some of the most innovative ideas for meeting that challenge. It presents new:
Thinking about what grades should measure
Ideas for developing robust assessment tools
Strategies for encouraging students to pursue knowledge instead of grades
Ways to ensure that assessments gauge performance and...
This book provides insights into managing the supremely complicated task of assigning a simple letter to a semester's work. This book is intended f...
Teaching Strategies for the College Classroom: A Collection of Faculty Articles is a practical, classroom-tested "tool kit" for faculty members who would like to develop their teaching practice. The 35 articles are drawn from the pages of The Teaching Professor newsletter and are written by college faculty for college faculty. They contain concrete pedagogical strategies that have been tested in the authors' classrooms and together form a handbook of classroom strategies. There are articles on: Honoring (and challenging) students' beliefs Improving student focus Introducing a syllabus...
Teaching Strategies for the College Classroom: A Collection of Faculty Articles is a practical, classroom-tested "tool kit" for faculty members who wo...
