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 Grading Policy Options Influence Student Learning?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Ethical Issues Lurk in My Grading Policy?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Assess your current grading practices to ensure they are grounded in fairness and objectivity. Learn about the checks and balances you can apply to your grading policies to ensure they conform to your ethical standards.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Objective Items?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Is Essential in a Grading Policy?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Course Design and Preparation, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
How Can Students Use Self-Compassion to Reduce Test Anxiety?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Sometimes students get in their own way. They panic before exams and fill their heads with worries about failure. This program shows you how to help your students reframe the way they look at their exams and themselves. When they learn to love themselves a little more, they will fear exams a little less.
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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
What Key Factors Influence Test Performance?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- 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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- 20-Minute Mentors, Assessment, Grading, and Feedback, Faculty, Magna All Access
Are Group Exams a Viable Testing Option?
- $29.00 – $399.00
- Group work doesn't always have the best reputation. Learn how to overcome common concerns about group exams and how to employ them to increase student learning and improve outcomes for students and for you.
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