Assessing Learning

September 28, 2023

Planning and Facilitating Effective Peer Assessment

Reading Time: 4 minutes Peer assessment, also called peer review, is an instructional approach that allows learners to consider, evaluate, and provide feedback on the level, value, or quality...

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September 15, 2023

Rubric Quick Guide: Levels and Point Values

Reading Time: 3 minutes This quick guide provides directions and options related to level structure and assignment of point values for rubrics that reduce grade creep – See Updating...

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August 3, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assessment Statements for Students

Reading Time: 2 minutes Below are statements that you can use so that your students are clear on what is permitted with respect to the use of AI in...

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August 3, 2023

Limits on Student Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Course Assessments

Reading Time: 2 minutes Below are options that you can consider using or revising to communicate allowable use of generative AI in course assessments with your students. Option #1:...

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July 7, 2023

Advising Students on Detection Software Used in Assessments

Reading Time: 3 minutes This guide is provided to you by Teaching and Learning and the Privacy Office at Conestoga. Messaging to Students on Detection Software Used in Assessments...

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July 2, 2023

An Introduction to Case-Based Learning

Reading Time: 7 minutes The Case Research Committee (CRC) oversees the Open Access Teaching Case Journal (OATCJ) and the Case Research Development Program (CRDP) at Conestoga College, School of...

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June 19, 2023

Using Turnitin’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Detection Tool and the Process Guide for Navigating Potential Academic Offences

Reading Time: 4 minutes Generative AI has brought new challenges, opportunities, and questions in terms of the assessment of student work. Large Language Models (LLMs), the technology that powers...

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June 19, 2023

Updating Rubrics to Prevent Grade Inflation

Reading Time: 2 minutes Grade inflation is a well-known phenomenon. Check out some thoughts and data from Harvard in Grade Inflation: What Goes Up Must Come Down. We must ensure that students receive grades that discriminate, in the best sense of the word, the degree to which they have attained the course outcomes. In a general...

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June 1, 2023

Faculty Ideas for Talking with Students About Grammarly

Reading Time: 6 minutes Ideas for talking about Grammarly with students and using Grammarly with written assignments

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