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June 19, 2023

Updating Rubrics to Prevent Grade Inflation

Reading Time: 2 minutesGrade 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 sense, the course learning outcomes measure the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that the student has attained by a certain point in the course or cumulatively at the end of a course. Using the Grading Procedure to ensure rigour and consistency Conestoga’s Grading Procedure is designed to...
Categories Grading & Grading Tools/Quality Assessment Comment: 1
June 1, 2023

Citing Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is important to provide students with clear directions on how to cite any permitted use of generative AI (genAI) in assessments. These directions can be part of the statements you provide to students on The Optional Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Assessments. Below are examples you can provide to your students on assessment descriptions. Adjust the language...
Categories Assessment & AI/Quality Assessment Comments: 0
April 20, 2023

Assessment Proctoring Software

Reading Time: 2 minutesConestoga licenses several assessment proctoring apps or software for use in in-person, sync online or asynchronous courses. In assessments using online quizzes built within eConestoga, one or more of these options may be used to support academic integrity during test taking. Remote proctoring apps represent one component of a culture of academic integrity and honesty and are ideally not used...
Categories Assessment Implementation/Assessment Quick Guides/Quality Assessment
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...
Categories Assessment Design & Development/Effective Teaching/Lesson & Course Planning/Quality Assessment
December 5, 2022

Adding Video or Audio Feedback to Assignments

Reading Time: 5 minutesOn average, students will likely review the feedback you offer in your assignments as many as three times (Anson et al., 2016). Yet, to many of us, it may appear that students either do not access their feedback, or seem to not incorporate it into later assessments. This challenge might have multiple roots, but a few solutions, if used appropriately,...
Categories Grading & Grading Tools/Quality Assessment/Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching
July 15, 2022

Helping Students Understand Assignments in Your Course

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis learning pathway video introduces new faculty to some important ideas and considerations for ensuring that their students understand the assignments in their course. Helpful Resources Related to Assessment Preparing for Assessment Pathway – Marking Assignments in eConestoga Grading Bias: Making Marking More Equitable for All Learners Creating a Rubric Interested in Learning More About Assessment? Teaching and Learning offers...
Categories Effective Teaching/New Faculty/Quality Assessment
June 29, 2022

Marking Assignments in eConestoga

Reading Time: < 1 minuteView this video introduction to the learning path to better understand how to access and grade assessments in eConestoga. Additional Resources After you’ve viewed this video, you may also want to take a look at some of the Hub posts referenced. For additional support, access eConestoga’s regular weekday drop-in sessions. Below are the faculty learning hub posts referenced throughout this...
Categories Grading & Grading Tools/New Faculty/Quality Assessment
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...
Categories Assessment Design & Development/Effective Teaching/Quality Assessment/Student Engagement & Communication/Teaching for Learning
May 10, 2022

Options for Delivering Feedback

Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Joel Beaupre and Jesslyn Wilkinson Try some of these strategies to effectively create and share feedback online. Many of these strategies can be used for peer feedback activities as well. Summative Feedback Using Quick Eval in eConestoga Use highlighters, markers, inline comments and text, or other features to add feedback directly to a submission in eConestoga. You can also...
Categories Grading & Grading Tools/Quality Assessment
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...
Categories Assessment Design & Development/Assessment Quick Guides/Quality Assessment
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...
Categories Assessment Design & Development/Online Synchronous/Quality Assessment
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