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Assessment, Grading, and Feedback

Assessment, Grading, and Feedback Strategies for Teachers and Faculty

Discover how to improve assessments, grading, and feedback with online courses from Magna. Browse our catalog and get instant access now.

- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, Technology in Online Courses, Technology in the Classroom
- How Can I Use Generative AI to Assess Student Understanding?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Explore ways to integrate generative AI into assessments, allowing educators to evaluate student understanding beyond writing, fostering deeper cognitive comprehension for tailored teaching and significant student growth.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Use Assessment Data to Provide Meaningful Feedback and Deeper Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Explore solutions to the common feedback challenges faced by educators and efficiently learn how to leverage assessment data, deliver meaningful feedback, and enhance your teaching practices.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Technology in the Classroom
- How Can I Use AI as a Student Writing and Editing Coach?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Gain valuable insights on using the power of AI to assist students in strengthening their writing and editing skills, with benefits including: generating writing ideas, providing instant neutral feedback, and serving as a study aid.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Create Assessments to Effectively Measure Student Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Gain practical skills in implementing strategies and utilizing tools to assess student achievement, enhance teaching effectiveness, and better support student success.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What Are 7 Ways to Assess Students in an Ungraded Classroom?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Gain seven assessment strategies to use in classrooms of any size and classes of any type that maintain the benefits of ungrading while effectively maintaining rigor and high academic standards.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
- What Is Ungrading and How Can It Unleash Your Students’ Potential?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Get practical tips for how ungrading can be brought to any classroom and how to get started while learning how ungrading takes the pressure away from high-stakes exams and instead creates a pathway for learning throughout the semester based on performance, feedback, and demonstrated growth.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Multiple Presenter Courses, OC Discounts, Online Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Online Courses
- Practical Solutions for Faculty: Assessing Learning
- $329.00
- For faculty looking to improve assessments and feedback to help students better succeed, this Magna Online Course provides practical solutions from experienced educators who understand the time restraints you face.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Create Authentic Engagement Through Feedback Dialogue?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty whose students are not applying feedback beyond a specific assignment, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how by creating a dialogue around feedback, students will learn not only what needs correcting in a specific assignment, but how to apply this learning to future assignment as well. Learn how to combine feedback with student engagement to create meaningful learning.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Using Authentic Assessment to Assess Student Learning
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar will help you develop authentic assignments and assessment mechanisms to help encourage a holistic understanding of student learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Grade in Less Time with Greater Impact?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who want to improve student feedback while not adding to their grading workload, this 20-Minute Mentor provides expert guidance to creating better opportunities for your students while being more efficient with your grading.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars, Teaching Strategies
- Using Interleaving in Course Design to Improve Retention
- $29.00 – $697.00
- For faculty whose students are not retaining course concepts for the duration of the semester, this Magna Online Seminar explains interleaving content during instruction and studying to improve student success through increased content retention.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Write Better Exam Questions to Measure Student Performance and Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty seeking advice on writing more effective exam questions, this 20-Minute Mentor provides many tips and strategies for reinvigorating exam question sets to provide students better examinations.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
- How Can I Increase Exam Security with Custom Question Banks?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For faculty who want to increase their exam security, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to use question banks to create unique exams and improve academic integrity.
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- Active and Engaged Students, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- On-the-fly Assessment Strategies for the Active Learning Classroom 
- $29.00 – $697.00
- If you are hoping to assess student learning in real time in order to improve learning outcomes and student engagement, this online seminar offers more than 10 specific techniques for doing so, explained in detail, with examples of how to use each in the classroom.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Magna All Access, Teaching Strategies
- What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- For teachers who want to increase student learning by applying mastery learning in their courses, this 20-Minute Mentor explains how mastery learning improves student success, how instructors can apply it without dramatically increasing their workload, and how technology can be an asset and time saver if using this method.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, On-Demand Seminars, Online Seminars
- Using UDL to Create Effective Educational Assessments
- $29.00 – $697.00
- A tenured Universal Design for Learning (UDL) expert will discuss assessment alternatives based on UDL framework that are acceptable even in cases where instructors do not believe they have flexibility to change assessments.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Examine common question-writing pitfalls and learn item analysis, so you can examine the performance of your questions and determine how to refine them for next time.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Learning Assessment Techniques: How to Integrate New Activities that Gauge What and How Well Students Learn
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Learn techniques that will help improve your teaching and your students' ability to learn more effectively. Develop a framework you can use to better identify goals for your students, along with strategies to help them achieve those goals.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- An Integrated Approach to Student Exams
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Discover simple strategies you can use every day, whether online or in the classroom, to ensure exams are not simply perceived as grade-generating mechanisms but instead recognized as enriched learning tools that will have a significant impact on student success.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Grading Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Rigor
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Increase student motivation, produce higher-quality student work, and encourage student responsibility and academic integrity, all while making assessment less stressful for students and simplifying the grading process for themselves.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Effective Assessment Strategies for Large Classes
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Discover ideas that you will be able to incorporate almost immediately from an educator who has successfully implemented meaningful feedback and effective grading approaches in large-section classes.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Grade Less, Teach Less, Learn More
- $29.00 – $697.00
- This Magna Online Seminar presents a framework of expert-level teaching practices, all backed by the science of how our brains learn. Adopting three elements of a constructivist teaching approach can help to make learners more active, curious, and engaged, all while reducing your workload as an instructor.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, On-Demand Seminars
- Assessment Strategies for Mastery Learning in Large Session Classes
- $29.00 – $697.00
- For educators teaching large-session classes who are interested in implementing mastery learning but feel restricted by the instructor/student ratio, this online seminar offers strategies to implement mastery learning assessments in large enrollment classes.
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- Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, On-Demand Seminars
- Why Students Cheat and What We Can Do About It
- $29.00 – $697.00
- Discover what you need to do to reframe your attitudes about and revise your approach to academic dishonesty in this seminar.
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