Category: Assessment, Grading, and Feedback

Assessment, Grading, and Feedback

Assessment, Grading, and Feedback Strategies for Teachers and Faculty

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  • Practical Solutions for Faculty: Assessing Learning
    • Practical Solutions for Faculty: Assessing Learning
    • Practical Solutions for Faculty: Assessing Learning

    • $199.00
    • For faculty looking to improve assessments and feedback to help students better succeed, Practical Solutions for Faculty: Assessing Learning provides practical solutions from experienced educators who understand the time restraints you face.
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  • How Can I Assess Active Learning Strategies in the Classroom?
    • How Can I Assess Active Learning Strategies in the Classroom?
    • How Can I Assess Active Learning Strategies in the Classroom?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • Discover practical tips for designing active courses and assignments to improve student engagement and problem-solving skills, then learn to effectively assess these strategies for continuous improvement in your classroom!
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  • What Assessment Strategies Are Effective for Asynchronous Online Teaching?
  • How Can I Use Generative AI to Assess Student Understanding?
    • How Can I Use Generative AI to Assess Student Understanding?
    • How Can I Use Generative AI to Assess Student Understanding?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • 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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  • How Can I Use Assessment Data to Provide Meaningful Feedback and Deeper Learning?
  • How Can I Use AI as a Student Writing and Editing Coach?
    • How Can I Use AI as a Student Writing and Editing Coach?
    • How Can I Use AI as a Student Writing and Editing Coach?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • 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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  • How Can I Create Assessments to Effectively Measure Student Learning?
  • What Are 7 Ways to Assess Students in an Ungraded Classroom?
    • What Are 7 Ways to Assess Students in an Ungraded Classroom?
    • What Are 7 Ways to Assess Students in an Ungraded Classroom?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • 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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  • What Is Ungrading and How Can It Unleash Your Students’ Potential?
    • What Is Ungrading and How Can It Unleash Your Students’ Potential?
    • What Is Ungrading and How Can It Unleash Your Students’ Potential?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • 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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  • Practical Solutions for Faculty: Assessing Learning
  • How Can I Create Authentic Engagement Through Feedback Dialogue?
    • How Can I Create Authentic Engagement Through Feedback Dialogue?
    • How Can I Create Authentic Engagement Through Feedback Dialogue?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • 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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  • Using Authentic Assessment to Assess Student Learning
  • How Can I Grade in Less Time with Greater Impact?
    • How Can I Grade in Less Time with Greater Impact?
    • How Can I Grade in Less Time with Greater Impact?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • 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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  • Using Interleaving in Course Design to Improve Retention
    • Using Interleaving in Course Design to Improve Retention
    • Using Interleaving in Course Design to Improve Retention

    • $39.00$799.00
    • 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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  • How Can I Write Better Exam Questions to Measure Student Performance and Learning?
  • How Can I Increase Exam Security with Custom Question Banks?
  • On-the-fly Assessment Strategies for the Active Learning Classroom 
    • On-the-fly Assessment Strategies for the Active Learning Classroom 
    • On-the-fly Assessment Strategies for the Active Learning Classroom 

    • $39.00$799.00
    • 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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  • What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?
    • What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?
    • What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • 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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  • Using UDL to Create Effective Educational Assessments
    • Using UDL to Create Effective Educational Assessments
    • Using UDL to Create Effective Educational Assessments

    • $39.00$799.00
    • 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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  • Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions
    • Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions
    • Writing Better Multiple-Choice Questions

    • $39.00$799.00
    • 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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  • Learning Assessment Techniques:  How to Integrate New Activities that Gauge What and How Well Students Learn
  • An Integrated Approach to Student Exams
    • An Integrated Approach to Student Exams
    • An Integrated Approach to Student Exams

    • $39.00$799.00
    • 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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  • Grading Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Rigor
    • Grading Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Rigor
    • Grading Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Rigor

    • $39.00$799.00
    • 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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  • Effective Assessment Strategies for Large Classes
    • Effective Assessment Strategies for Large Classes
    • Effective Assessment Strategies for Large Classes

    • $39.00$799.00
    • 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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  • Grade Less, Teach Less, Learn More
    • Grade Less, Teach Less, Learn More
    • Grade Less, Teach Less, Learn More

    • $39.00$799.00
    • 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 Strategies for Mastery Learning in Large Session Classes
    • Assessment Strategies for Mastery Learning in Large Session Classes
    • Assessment Strategies for Mastery Learning in Large Session Classes

    • $39.00$799.00
    • 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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  • Why Students Cheat and What We Can Do About It
  • Grading Strategies for the Online College Classroom: A Collection of Articles for Faculty
  • The Teaching Professor
    • The Teaching Professor
    • The Teaching Professor

    • From: $19.00 / month
    • The Teaching Professor is the lively, highly informative newsletter with a singular purpose: to provide ideas and insight to educators who are passionate about teaching. A source of cutting-edge information and inspiration for more than 10,000 educators at universities and colleges worldwide.
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  • Monday Morning Mentor
    • Monday Morning Mentor
    • Monday Morning Mentor

    • $1,049.00
    • Monday Morning Mentor delivers one of our popular Magna 20-Minute Mentor online programs each week - 16 in the fall and 16 in the spring.
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  • What Is the Best Way to Grade Participation?
    • What Is the Best Way to Grade Participation?
    • What Is the Best Way to Grade Participation?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • You know how essential it is for students to be active participants in their education. But how do you grade them on it? In this program, you'll learn an overview of what not to do when grading participation, activities worth doing, how to do them, and how to evaluate your own process.
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  • How Do I Give Feedback that Improves Student Writing?
    • How Do I Give Feedback that Improves Student Writing?
    • How Do I Give Feedback that Improves Student Writing?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • Trying to teach students to improve their writing can be like trying to teach cats to fetch: Demonstrate all you want, encourage all you want, implore all you want—you're apt to be met with nothing but blinks. We share seven novel feedback techniques that will motivate your students and drive real improvement in their writing.
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  • How Do I Get Students to Read Their Assignments Before Class?
    • How Do I Get Students to Read Their Assignments Before Class?
    • How Do I Get Students to Read Their Assignments Before Class?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • Even though many faculty members routinely spell out course requirements in syllabi and give announcements and reminders, students continue to come to class unprepared. We provide several dynamic strategies that you can use to help students learn the value of reading.
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  • How Can Post-Exam Reviews Become a Powerful Teaching Strategy?
    • How Can Post-Exam Reviews Become a Powerful Teaching Strategy?
    • How Can Post-Exam Reviews Become a Powerful Teaching Strategy?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • The benefits of a thoughtfully designed and learning-oriented post-exam review session is a win- win for both faculty and students. When post-exam review is implemented with concepts critical to student learning, students are given the opportunity for metacognition to identify both strengths and gaps in knowledge, explore content to apply classroom knowledge, and differentiate correct from incorrect thinking.
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  • How Can I Assess Students in My Online Classes Through Student-created Videos?
    • How Can I Assess Students in My Online Classes Through Student-created Videos?
    • How Can I Assess Students in My Online Classes Through Student-created Videos?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • By incorporating student videos into online classes, students can feel connected to their classmates and more engaged with course content. Online instructors may encounter some challenges when incorporating student videos initially. This session provides practical ways to avoid them.
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  • How Can Improving Student Feedback Improve the Quality of Each Educational Encounter?
    • How Can Improving Student Feedback Improve the Quality of Each Educational Encounter?
    • How Can Improving Student Feedback Improve the Quality of Each Educational Encounter?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • By viewing student feedback through alternative lenses, faculty and administrators are able to better understand and manage mismatched definitions of rigor. Careful consideration of student feedback can lead to instructional and policy changes that facilitate closer alignment of expectations regarding rigor, assessment, and learning.
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  • What Are the Secrets to Providing Highly Effective Feedback to Students?
    • What Are the Secrets to Providing Highly Effective Feedback to Students?
    • What Are the Secrets to Providing Highly Effective Feedback to Students?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • You'll learn ways to give substantive feedback and recycle comments to save time and effort. You'll see the type of questions that help or hinder student achievement and acquire tips to ignite students curiosity, respect their thinking, and stoke their engagement.
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  • How Can Grading Policy Options Influence Student Learning?
    • How Can Grading Policy Options Influence Student Learning?
    • How Can Grading Policy Options Influence Student Learning?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • Learn the positive results—empowering students, motivating them, increasing their engagement, achieving better learning outcomes—that can be realized through strategic decisions you make about your grading policies.
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  • How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Objective Items?
    • How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Objective Items?
    • How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Objective Items?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • Learn how to assess most critical thinking skills using an assortment of methods, such as true/false, matching, multiple choice, and multiple true/false tests. Receive step-by-step instruction for designing objective items to assess particular cognitive operations in critical thinking skills for a wide range of disciplines.
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  • What Is Essential in a Grading Policy?
    • What Is Essential in a Grading Policy?
    • What Is Essential in a Grading Policy?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • Learn the merits of absolute grading versus grading on a curve, the pluses and minuses of letter-based and point-based grading, and whether—and how—to properly weight assignments across a semester.
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  • How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?
    • How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?
    • How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • Gain a portfolio of guidelines for assignments that test student constructed responses. You will learn the keys to defining learning goals, creating assignments, and drafting rubrics to boost and measure critical thinking outcomes.
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  • What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?
    • What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?
    • What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • Learn to create a discipline-specific strategy to grow your students critical thinking skills, identify critical thinking content, and adapt your courses accordingly. This program will give you a clearer and deeper understanding of critical thinking and how to teach it in your courses.
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  • What Key Factors Influence Test Performance?
    • What Key Factors Influence Test Performance?
    • What Key Factors Influence Test Performance?

    • $39.00$499.00
    • There are a lot of things going on that can keep your students from performing at their best. This program shows you the kinds of challenges your students face and then offers a simple, adaptable classroom tool that you can use to help your students help themselves learn course material and effectively demonstrate their knowledge on exams.
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