I’m waiting for my T-shirt to arrive in the mail. It’s the one that will say, on the back, “ETS Research Symposium on Through-Course Summative Assessment, Atlanta, Feb. 10-11, 2011.” And on the front, ...

Summative assessments gauge student achievement after the completion of learning activities. While many of these are common such as exams, projects and essays, there are a larger variety of ways to ...

Each academic department or program is required to develop a teaching evaluation plan with the aim of improving the quality of instruction and student learning (MUPIM 7.2.). These plans should include ...

Hope College has always had effective, energizing instruction as one main priority. It is this spirit that guides the desire to continuously develop the instructional skills of faculty and academic ...

Assessing the Classroom Environment, or ACE course evaluations are sent out at the end of each semester. Students are able to provide feedback about a course and professor by answering several ...

Collecting assessment data allows for the tracking of student learning. Refinement of courses and programs to improve student learning is a crucial part of teaching excellence, program improvement, ...

Weekly Essay Questions: Synthesis Essay Questions (SEQs). Weekly, formative, open book concept reasoning exercises in which students are given a brief written clinical scenario and asked to explain a ...

Just recently I got a set of teaching evaluations for a course that I taught in the fall of 2008 -- and another set for a course I taught in 2006. This lag wasn't the fault of campus mail (it can be ...

So we have officially passed the midpoint of the semester. Hopefully, we finally ironed out all the wrinkles in our courses and have settled into a comfortable pattern that works for us and works for ...

In fall 2021, the Student Course Evaluation Advisory committee modified the ten common questions to reflect the increase in learning experiences outside of a traditional “classroom.” Compound ...