September 23, 2021

Grading Bias: Making Marking More Equitable for All Learners

Reading Time: 5 minutes“As a profession, teaching is full of well-intentioned individuals deeply committed to seeing all [students] succeed.” Staats, C. (2016) Student learning, growth, development, and ultimate success provide most educators with the WHY behind the work done by educators. It is this genuine and authentic care for students and their well-being that requires pause and reflection upon the potential impact of...

Categories Assessment Quick Guides/Grading & Grading Tools/Inclusive Assessment/Quality Assessment

September 2, 2021

Creating a Rubric

Reading Time: 6 minutesIf you are seeking a clear, efficient framework for marking assessments, follow these guidelines to create an assessment rubric.

Categories Grading & Grading Tools/Quality Assessment

July 16, 2021

Review and Reflection and How to Assess Them: Part 2

Reading Time: 3 minutesPart 2 of a two-part teaching tip on assessing review and reflection as skills includes suggestions to help students build their ability to reflect both as learners and as practitioners in their field.

Categories Assessment Design & Development/Effective Teaching/Grading & Grading Tools/Lesson & Course Planning/Quality Assessment

July 16, 2021

Review and Reflection and How to Assess Them: Part 1

Reading Time: 6 minutesIn part 1 of a two-part teaching tip on assessing the professional skills of reflection/review, reflection is defined and explained in a historical context.

Categories Assessment Design & Development/Effective Teaching/Grading & Grading Tools/Lesson & Course Planning/Quality Assessment

April 26, 2021

Rubric Items & Riders

Reading Time: 3 minutesChecklist and Statements for Ensuring Academic Integrity (AI) in Submissions Statements around academic integrity share clear expectations with students. You can use the points below as a checklist for describing and sharing expectations with your students. You may also wish to  choose a few statements that apply most specifically to your assignments and add them to your assignment description or...

Categories Grading & Grading Tools/Quality Assessment

April 13, 2021

Marking Dilemmas

Reading Time: 5 minutesDuring challenging times, how should we proceed with grading in order to balance academic rigour and fairness with care and understanding for our students?  This teaching tip helps you to manage a number of marking dilemmas you may experience.

Categories Grading & Grading Tools/Quality Assessment

March 31, 2021

Working With Mark Pushback and Course Concerns from Students

Reading Time: 4 minutesThoughts 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.

Categories Grading & Grading Tools/Online Synchronous/Quality Assessment

November 24, 2020

Test Preparation: Providing Guidance for Students Taking Tests

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

Categories Assessment Design & Development/Online Asynchronous/Online Synchronous/Quality Assessment

October 8, 2020

Honour Pledges for Assessments

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

Categories Assessment Design & Development/Grading & Grading Tools/Quality Assessment

June 3, 2020

Providing Feedback in an Online Environment

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe in Teaching and Learning share the commitment to find ways to enact the aspects of the Evaluation of Student Learning Procedure through thoughtful planning for each learning modality. This  teaching tip will focus on online synchronous and asynchronous feedback opportunities. Here are excerpts from the Academic Course Procedure to consider as we adjust our assessment practices to the modality of our teaching...

Categories Grading & Grading Tools/Online Asynchronous/Online Synchronous/Quality Assessment

May 28, 2020

Assigning, Coaching, and Marking Recorded Presentations

Reading Time: 4 minutesStrategies and suggestions for coaching and grading recorded student presentations.

Categories Assessment Design & Development/Online Asynchronous/Online Synchronous/Quality Assessment

May 1, 2020

Northern Lessons on Collaboration and Feedback

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

Categories Effective Teaching/Reflective Practice

February 10, 2020

Preparing for Assessment

Reading Time: 4 minutesAssessment properly understood represents a continuation and culmination of the teaching and learning process. With the course learning outcomes firmly in view, we teach, we provide meaningful opportunities for rehearsal, practice, and application, and then we provide feedback on student progress throughout the semester. Following are a few tips to consider in order to ensure that our students have the...

Categories Assessment Design & Development/Quality Assessment

December 18, 2017

Group Marking

Reading Time: 4 minutesTips for marking group work.

Categories Effective Teaching/Grading & Grading Tools/Quality Assessment/Teaching for Learning