Course Design Exams Quizzes 
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 9, 2024
Reflecting on our approach to course design—particularly with attention to how we build community and cultivate belonging—couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Intentional course design, it turns out, emphasizes many of the very same things that support student well-being (Slavin, Schindler, & Chibnall, 2014).
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 9, 2024
Reflecting on our approach to course design—particularly with attention to how we build community and cultivate belonging—couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Intentional course design, it turns out, emphasizes many of the very same things that support student well-being (Slavin, Schindler, & Chibnall, 2014).
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Faculty Focus
APRIL 16, 2024
After the student learning outcomes have been defined, the creation of the pre-course does not have to be complex. PowerPoints, brief lectures or lecture videos, images, diagrams, quizzes, and interactive activities can be utilized to deliver prelusive course content.
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 21, 2024
Focus on challenge and relevance: We all hope our courses will engage students, challenge their assumptions, require effort, and facilitate the development of deep understandings and skills. This type of intellectual rigor is desirable in course design. These assessments must be valid and reliable.
Edsurge
APRIL 26, 2018
Do exams still serve a purpose? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like. But why, then, do so many courses still rely on exams? Yes exactly.
Faculty Focus
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
On a practice and policy level, there is widespread agreement that formative assessment and feedback should be featured within course design and delivery (Carless & Winstone, 2019). There needs to be a clear distinction between when formative and summative assessments are primarily utilized.
Faculty Focus
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
On a practice and policy level, there is widespread agreement that formative assessment and feedback should be featured within course design and delivery (Carless & Winstone, 2019). There needs to be a clear distinction between when formative and summative assessments are primarily utilized.
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