April 8, 2024 In-Person Proctoring How-To’s Reading Time: 4 minutes In-class proctored tests and exams offer the opportunity to measure student learning in the moment, under observation. These types of assessments can also present you... Categories Academic Integrity/Assessing Learning/Assessment Challenges/Assessment Quick Guides/In-person
April 1, 2024 Uses of Student Work: What You Can and Cannot Do Reading Time: 2 minutes Students have intellectual rights under Canadian copyright law to the work they create during their post-secondary education. They also have privacy rights that mean student... Categories AI and Assessment/AI and Teaching/Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides/Student Rights and Responsibilities
March 6, 2024 Rethinking Academic Integrity in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence Reading Time: 4 minutes As professors, our responsibility to uphold academic integrity becomes increasingly complex with the integration of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in the learning environment, prompting a... Categories Academic Integrity/AI and Assessment/AI and Learning/AI and Teaching/Artificial Intelligence/Assessment Quick Guides/Teaching
February 13, 2024 Leveraging your slide deck, Part 1: Scaffolding assessments for student success Reading Time: 5 minutes A slide deck can be the focus point of a lesson, presenting key information related to the week’s learning outcomes. A slide deck, however, is... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides/Improving Assessments/Lesson and Course Planning/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching
February 6, 2024 Peer Feedback: Grading Tool versus Assessment Tool Reading Time: 3 minutes Peer feedback is a powerful classroom assessment tool that you can leverage to support students’ learning (Patchan et al, 2015; Yu & Schunn, 2023). Particularly... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Assessing Learning/Assessment/Assessment Quick Guides/Collaboration/Creating Assessments/Improving Assessments/Student Focused Assessment
January 23, 2024 Email Templates Responding to Suspected Student Use of Generative AI Reading Time: 4 minutes In this Hub post, we will explore three scenarios in which you may need to contact students by email to express concern about suspected use... Categories Academic Integrity/AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning/Assessment Challenges/Assessment Quick Guides/Teaching
December 13, 2023 Using Exemplars to Support Student Success with Assessments Reading Time: 3 minutes Exemplars are “carefully chosen samples of student work which are used to illustrate dimensions of quality and to clarify assessment expectations” (Carless & Chan, 2017,... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Assessing Learning/Assessment/Assessment Quick Guides/Communicating With Students/Creating Assessments/Giving Feedback/Improving Assessments/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching
November 15, 2023 Academic Integrity and Assessment in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Reading Time: 4 minutes A fair and accurate assessment provides evidence of a student’s learning under their own cognitive efforts. Concerns around academic integrity, however, can cast doubt on an... Categories AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides/Getting Started with AI
October 26, 2023 Proctoring Technologies for Test & Exams Reading Time: 3 minutes Effective test and exam proctoring is an important part of the work that we do as faculty to ensure integrity and create supportive spaces for... Categories Assessing Learning/Assessment/Assessment Quick Guides/Teaching/Tech For Teaching
October 12, 2023 Designing Multiple Choice Questions with EAL in Mind Reading Time: 4 minutes A Multiple-Choice Question (MCQ) item consists of a problem, known as the stem (written as a question or as a partial sentence that requires completion), and a... Categories Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides/Creating Assessments/Diverse Identities/Improving Assessments/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching/Teaching International Students