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Using Screencasts for Formative and Summative Assessment
As a new teacher, one of the resources I found most helpful in shaping my grading practices was Grant Wiggins’s advice on feedback and assessment. Meaningful feedback, he suggests, is much more than assigning a grade or even offering recommendations for improvement. Rather, meaningful feedback is descriptive, “play[ing] back” the student’s performance and connecting it to the learning outcomes of the course.
First Day of Class Activities that Create a Climate for Learning
10 Reasons to Visit Baltimore
The latest from Academic Leader Today
Take a Vacation – Please! Maintaining Work-Life Balance
Although workshops on academic leadership frequently devote sessions to the topic of “work-life balance,” that phrase is really misleading. It seems to imply that we’re either working or living but never doing both at the same time.
Six Practical Solutions for Racial Tensions on Campus
Using Social Media for Learning