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Direct linkMills, Shala; Bennett, Bryan; Crawford, C. B.; Gould, Lawrence – Assessment Update, 2009
A call to engagement at Fort Hays State University (FHSU) led to significant curricular and assessment changes in the university's Department of Political Science. The university unveiled the Year of the Department (YOTD) as "an ongoing strategic initiative for orchestrating change and aligning people, systems and culture at the basic unit level…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Political Science, Methods, Teaching Methods
Ilk, Ozlem – Assessment Update, 2007
The most powerful single modification that enhances achievement is feedback. Feedback can be achieved through the use of classroom assessment techniques (CATs). CATs are designed to provide both faculty and students with the feedback necessary to increase the quality of teaching and learning throughout the semester (Angelo and Cross, 1993). CATs…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Student Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods
Suskie, Linda – Assessment Update, 2007
Imagine that a student--let's call him Michael--has earned a score of 55 on an examination. How well did he do? Was his score good enough for him to pass the examination, or pass the course, or be deemed at least minimally competent in whatever the exam was assessing? Michael's score alone, in the absence of any other information, cannot answer…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, Instructional Effectiveness
Weeks, Linda Ann – Assessment Update, 2004
In this article, the author shares how she used a video on animals to teach her graduate classes about subjectivity in assessment. For this video assessment, she made her students evaluate the video based on five categories: content, structure, sensitivity to audience, audio, and visual. As a teacher, she knows how impossible it is to be totally…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Videotape Recordings, Animals, Graduate Students
Farmer, Lesley S. J. – Assessment Update, 2004
Increasingly, colleges and universities are offering online courses using commercial course packaging. One of the most popular courseware programs is Blackboard. This article describes research that employed a two-pronged approach to investigate how education faculty used Blackboard courseware to facilitate student competence in using technology.…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Online Courses, Higher Education, Courseware
Olsen, Danny R.; Wygant, Steven A.; Brown, Bruce L. – Assessment Update, 2004
Recent advances in electronic data collection have opened broad new possibilities for educational assessment. Potentially significant savings in time, money, and effort make Web-based and e-mail-based surveys more and more attractive as alternatives to mail surveys and face-to-face interviews. Yet, as with any major change, questions and obstacles…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Mail Surveys, Computer Software, Teaching Methods
Bers, Trudy; Kovala, Irene H. – Assessment Update, 2004
During the spring semesters of 1999 through 2003, the general education subcommittee of Oakton Community College's (Des Plaines, Illinois) Student Academic Assessment Team (SAAT) implemented a locally developed institutional approach for assessing students' achievement of general education objectives. The overall process remained essentially the…
Descriptors: General Education, Community Colleges, Educational Objectives, Academic Achievement
Pike, Gary R. – Assessment Update, 2004
Recently the Educational Testing Service (ETS) has modified its Student Instructional Report II (SIR II) for use in online distance education courses. The SIR II is a second-generation survey based on more than thirty years of experience with student evaluations (Centra, 1998; Centra and Gaubatz, n.d.). The e-SIR II is based on the highly…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Distance Education, Educational Testing, Prior Learning
Cassara, Shirley – Assessment Update, 2004
As an instructor of a multinational class, the author's challenge as a teacher was not the language but how to capitalize on the wealth of cultural diversity and keep the structure of the Group Dynamics course flexible and responsive. In this article, the author describes an exercise entitled "How Do I Know Thee: A Two-Part Program for Teachers…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Environment, Cultural Background
