Tag: Assessment

April 26, 2021

Rubric Items and Riders

Reading Time: 3 minutes Check List and Statements for Ensuring Academic Integrity (AI) in Submissions Statements around academic integrity share clear expectations with students. You can use the points...

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April 13, 2021

Marking Dilemmas: Maintaining Standards While Feeling Sorry for Students and Not Wanting to Fail Anyone

Reading Time: 5 minutes By Laura Stoutenburg, Kathryn Brillinger, Elan Paulson, and Nasreen Sultana During challenging times, how should we proceed with grading in order to balance academic rigour and fairness with care and understanding for...

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March 31, 2021

Working With Mark Pushback and Course Concerns from Students

Reading Time: 3 minutes Thoughts by Kathryn Brillinger on the challenges of ensuring clarity on expectations and building rapport with online and remote students, and suggestions for responding to students who push back on the marks they receive.

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November 24, 2020

Test Preparation: Providing Guidance for Students Taking Tests

Reading Time: 4 minutes Exams can be stressful, especially now. Here are some suggestions for setting clear yet welcoming guidelines for for your students to follow.

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October 8, 2020

Honour Pledges for Remote Assessments

Reading Time: 3 minutes Information about using honour pledges, and alternatives, to reduce academic violations

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September 21, 2020

Evaluating Professionalism in College Courses

Reading Time: 2 minutes This post was collaboratively written by Nancy Nelson and Joel Beaupré, Teaching and Learning Consultants Background  Many college educators aspire to teach, reinforce, and assess professionalism in their courses, though they...

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June 3, 2020

Providing Feedback in a Remote Environment

Reading Time: 3 minutes We in Teaching and Learning share the commitment to find ways to enact the aspects of the Evaluation of Student Learning Procedure which require thoughtful planning in a remote learning...

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May 28, 2020

Assigning, Coaching, and Marking Recorded Presentations

Reading Time: 5 minutes Strategies and suggestions for coaching and grading recorded student presentations.

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May 1, 2020

Northern Lessons on Collaboration and Feedback

Reading Time: 5 minutes Joel Beaupré shares experience and lessons learned about collaboration and feedback in his first years of teaching in Northern Ontario.

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February 10, 2020

Preparing for Assessment

Reading Time: 4 minutes Assessment properly understood represents a continuation and culmination of the teaching and learning process. With the course learning outcomes firmly in view, we teach, we...

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