Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Feedback is a powerful tool for student learning. Feedback completes the learning cycle where we teach, access, explain the results of assessment and then reteach or move on and access again. Yorke (author of a chapter in Failing Students in Higher Education) emphasizes that “Feedback can improve a student’s …
February 2021 archive
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Feb 18 2021
SIP 13.5 Trauma-Responsive Teaching
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? A traumatic experience is any event in life that causes a threat to our safety and well-being. More than two-thirds of the population report experiencing at least one Adverse Childhood Experience. ACEs are common among all populations, and nearly a quarter of people have experienced three or more in their …
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Feb 11 2021
SIP 13.4 Writing Good Multiple-choice Questions
Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? As more assessment takes place in the online environment these days, the advantages of multiple-choice questions become apparent. And while employing a variety of assessment formats is ideal, multiple-choice questions can be an effective and efficient way to assess student learning outcomes (SLOs). Multiple-choice questions have several potential advantages: …
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Feb 04 2021
SIP 13.3 Navigating Constant Moral Decisions while Teaching and Learning During a Pandemic
Students and faculty alike are tired from the daily value prioritizing and moral negotiations required for pandemic life. From the simplest decisions to the most complex, our values and priorities are being questioned and tested; it can even feel like these decisions define our worth or standing within our communities. Decisions that normally didn’t take …
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