by Mendi Benigni | Sep 16, 2016 | Assessment, Dear TLT, OAKS, OAKS Tips, TLT
Dear TLT, I have an assignment that has two components but produces one grade. I’d like to use a different OAKS rubric to evaluate each component. Is it possible to do this within one OAKS Dropbox so that there is only one grade in the grade book? I really...
by Jessica Smith | May 24, 2016 | Assessment, Best Practices, Pedagogy, Teaching Advice
Too often, at professional development workshops or on education blogs, there’s an emphasis on designing courses that encourage students to reach the summit of Bloom’s pyramid. There’s absolutely nothing inadvisable about helping students analyze, evaluate, and...
by Jessica Smith | May 5, 2016 | 1-1-1, Assessment, Best Practices, Research, TLT
Today’s Faculty Guest Post is from Chris Mothorpe, Assistant Professor of Economics. Chris attended TLT’s 2015 Faculty Technology Institute. In this post, he reflects on the process of revising and improving a group research project in two of his...
by Jessica Smith | Feb 22, 2016 | Assessment, Innovative Instruction, Web 2.0
Riddle is a FREE web-based tool that allows users to create opinion polls, lists, quizzes, and personality tests. If you’re familiar with Buzzfeed (your students will be), Riddle allows you to create similar quizzes. It’s a fun and simple formative...
by Laura Plotts | Feb 9, 2016 | Assessment, TLT
The following article from eduTOPIA lists five formative assessment tools that you may want to explore http://goo.gl/ZoCSzo . Two of the tools mentioned, Socrative and Kahoot, are tools that TLT have conducted session on in the past and have created step by step...