MAGNA 20-MINUTE MENTORS
Category: Assessment, Grading, and Feedback
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Make My Exams More about Learning, Less about Grades?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn how you can transform exams into enhanced opportunities for student learning with practical solutions to the three core problems with exams today. Making exams better suit your learning goals requires student participation at every step of the process. Your presenter, Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D., shares real-world, tested guidelines for integrating student input.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Is the Best Way to Grade Participation?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Make My Multiple Choice Tests More Effective?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Learn how to make your multiple choice tests more effective by creating a test blueprint and formulating test questions that go beyond memorization to evaluate thinking skills. Testing is more than a responsibility for faculty members. It's an opportunity to assess the progress you and your students have made toward your learning objectives. Multiple choice tests aren't about playing the odds—instead, they can help you make the most of your chances to connect with students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can Rubrics Make Grading Easier and Faster?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Rubrics help you develop a better grading system, one that delivers fair results, helps students learn, and makes effective use of your time. In this program, you will get examples of the three basic formats for rubrics and explore seven key recommendations developed to help you transform the grading process.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Create Meaningful Assignments for My Students?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Assignments are where students get to practice, engage with course content, demonstrate their growing mastery, and alert you to problems. Learn 16 research-based strategies proven to support student learning and how to apply several of these techniques when designing your course assignments.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Make the Activities in My Course More Inclusive?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Students dealing with physical, cognitive, and other barriers to learning might not be able to participate fully in some activities because of their challenges. This fast and focused session will show you a practical approach to making accommodations and promoting equitable opportunity for learning and engagement for all your students.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Transform My Tests into Learning Tools?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Tests and other assessments are effective tools for determining how well students learned (and how well you taught) earlier in the semester. But they don't really do much to help students learn in the present, or as the semester progresses. This fast, focused program will provide you with an assortment of tools and techniques to promote better learning.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Do I Give Feedback that Improves Student Writing?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Active and Engaged Students, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Do I Get Students to Read Their Assignments Before Class?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty
How Do I Master Mastery Grading?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- Standards-based grading and specifications grading are forms of mastery grading, which is an alternative to traditional percentage or points-based grading scales. This program provides specific instruction about the relationship between backward design and mastery grading, while leading to how to implement mastery grading into your course.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Delivery and Instruction, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can Post-Exam Reviews Become a Powerful Teaching Strategy?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access, Technology in Online Courses
How Can I Assess Students in My Online Classes Through Student-created Videos?
- $19.00 – $399.00
- 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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