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April 3, 2024

Pre-Assessments in Lesson Planning

Reading Time: 2 minutesWondering what students already know about a topic and how this informs our lesson planning? This post will provide a short explanation as to why pre-assessments are important in lesson planning and examples you can try with your students. Pre-Assessments are included in lesson planning for several reasons, these include guiding your lesson in finding out what students know about...
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February 6, 2024

Peer Feedback: Grading Tool vs. Assessment Tool  

Reading Time: 3 minutesPeer feedback is a powerful classroom assessment tool that you can leverage to support students’ learning (Patchan et al, 2015; Yu & Schunn, 2023). Particularly if your goal is to shift towards a more student-centered teaching approach. Are you interested in learning more about peer feedback? Consider reading these Faculty Learning Hub posts:  Post 1: Planning and Facilitating Effective Peer...
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December 13, 2023

Using Exemplars to Support Student Success with Assessments

Reading Time: 3 minutesExemplars are “carefully chosen samples of student work which are used to illustrate dimensions of quality and to clarify assessment expectations” (Carless & Chan, 2017, p. 1). Exemplars can help students increase their understanding of the skills, content, or knowledge and internalize established criteria or standards (Sadler, 2010). Particularly, through exemplars, your students can get a clear idea of the...
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November 27, 2023

The Optional Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Assessments 

Reading Time: 3 minutesAre you considering inviting students to use generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in completing an assessment in your course? Is knowledge of genAI required for workplace preparation in your industry? Do you want students to learn about the ethical and critical use of genAI platforms? This post walks you through some of the questions you will need to consider in integrating...
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October 12, 2023

Designing Multiple Choice Questions with EAL in Mind 

Reading Time: 4 minutesA 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 list of suggested solutions, known as options. The options consist of one correct or best option, which is the answer, and incorrect or inferior options, known as distractors.   Research indicates that the linguistic structure...
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September 28, 2023

Planning and Facilitating Effective Peer Assessment

Reading Time: 4 minutesPeer assessment, also called peer review, is an instructional approach that allows learners to consider, evaluate, and provide feedback on the level, value, or quality of the intellectual product of a peer (Topping, 1998). This guide is intended to support faculty with important considerations in making decisions and/or planning for incorporating peer assessment into their courses. Considerations for a Successful...
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July 2, 2023

An Introduction to Case-Based Learning 

Reading Time: 7 minutesThe Case Research Committee (CRC) oversees the  Open Access Teaching Case Journal (OATCJ) and the Case Research Development Program (CRDP) at Conestoga College, School of Business.  The OATCJ is published using open education practices (OEP) and is a free-to-use, free-to-publish, double-blind peer-reviewed publishing outlet.   The Case Research Development Program was developed to increase the accessibility of teaching resources, research and...
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December 20, 2022

Assessment Types

Reading Time: 6 minutesConestoga provides students with a wide range of assessment types. This tip describes the goals for choosing evaluation types, explains how discrete assessments fall within category and component descriptions, and provides a comprehensive list of types of assessments. Goals A number of goals for teaching and learning are achieved when faculty understand the type of assessments they are using in...
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May 25, 2022

Asking Effective Questions

Reading Time: 6 minutesYou may want to ask questions of your class during lessons in order to: This post provides some ideas and examples for how to form and deliver questions to achieve each of these goals.  1. Encourage Participation and Recall Students are less likely to answer your questions if they find them confusing, vague, or unrelatable. Students are more likely to speak...
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April 14, 2022

Writing Assignment Descriptions

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEvaluation is a key part of teaching. But, when it comes to assignments, what information should you include? How much information is too much? And how can you ensure instructions are clear and concise for students to understand? This teaching tip provides faculty with a checklist for your assignment descriptions at Conestoga College. Checklist for Assignment Descriptions Use this checklist...
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November 30, 2021

Two Stories of Testing in the Cloud

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis Faculty Story was co-written by Mariam Raza (Office Administration, Administrative Business Management) and Trish Stevenson (Public Relations). Mariam Raza has 15+ years of business support, executive support, and operational management experience. She joined Conestoga in 2017, teaching in the Office Administration certificate and diploma programs, and later in the Administrative Business Management graduate certificate program. She is a process...
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November 24, 2021

Supporting Marked Group Writing Assignments

Reading Time: 6 minutesPrepared by the Teaching & Learning team, this tip provides advice to faculty supporting collaborative group writing assignments, including reports and papers, as well as other types of group work projects. This tip includes suggestions for courses delivered in-person, hybrid (some real time classes, some anytime learning), or asynchronous (all anytime learning).  Group Work In Outcomes-Based Education  Graded group work assignments build...
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