2024 Summer Enrichment Course
Practical Solutions for Faculty: Assessing Learning
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.
Purchase Options
| Group Enrollment Pricing | |
|---|---|
| 1 person | $199 |
| 2–9 people | $139 per person |
| 10-49 people | $109 per person |
| 50–99 people | $89 per person |
2024 Summer Enrichment Course
Session 1 Access Dates: Now – August 2, 2024
Session 2 Access Dates: August 5 – September 20, 2024
Assessing student learning is an essential part of any college-level class, yet it can be stressful for students and time consuming for faculty. Assessing learning is not just about giving students an exam. It’s about measuring learning throughout the course, helping students retain course content as they learn it, and providing meaningful and valuable feedback on assignments and exams.
Practical Solutions for Faculty: Assessing Learning is your guide to helping students succeed through meaningful assignments, well-written assessments, and thought-provoking feedback. This asynchronous 8.5 Magna Online Course begins with strategies to create a culture of excellence and foster intrinsic motivation. You’ll also be introduced to teaching practices directed to improving cognition and retention as well as guidance in creating assignments and exams to assess learning. Finally, you’ll receive proven advice on not only simplifying the grading process, but also how to maximize feedback to impact learning.
Help students master your content! Learn from your brilliant colleagues who have been there before and get the tools to succeed with Practical Solutions for Faculty: Assessing Learning!
Learning Goals
After completing this course, you’ll be able to:
- Customize academic-integrity strategies to the discipline taught and level of rigor expected of learners
- Incorporate frequent, low-stakes assessments that will create deeper learning and increase student self-efficacy, thereby reducing the incentive to cheat
- Create multiple-choice questions that effectively target different cognitive levels
- Understand assessment as a holistic, transformative, and authentic means to enhance student learning
- Optimize feedback provided to students while being strategic about the time invested in grading
- Improve the effectiveness of standardized testing by re-conceptualizing the post-exam review into a powerful teaching and learning tool
How This Summer Enrichment Course Works:
- Select your preferred session date.
- Prior to the start of the course, participants will receive an email with information on accessing the online course.
- Access to the course runs according to your selected session date.
- Participants can work through the course at their own pace. Participants can also review information in a previous unit as well as read supplemental materials and watch the accompanying videos as many times as they like within their selected session date.
- Upon completion of the course, participants will take an assessment to gauge learning.
- At the end of the course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion as well as the ability to receive a Digital Badge.
What’s Included:
- Video programs
- A final assessment
- Transcripts of all video programs
- Program slides
- Supplemental readings and activities
- Certificate of Completion for the course
- Digital Badge for the course
What Your Peers Say About This Course:
Group Enrollment – Summer Enrichment Group Bundles:
Discount pricing is available for multiple seats purchased at the same time.
For a customized Summer Enrichment Group Bundle, please contact our Faculty Development Expert, Mackenzie Cahill, at mackenzie.cahill@magnapubs.com or book a time on her calendar using the button below to get started!
Connect with Our Faculty Development Expert!
Summer Enrichment Session 1 Product Code: PO24FA
Summer Enrichment Session 2 Product Code: PO24LA
Meet Your Presenters
Ken Alford, PhD
Professor of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University
Oliver Dreon, PhD
Professor, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Lauren Hays, PhD
Assistant Professor of Educational Technology, University of Central Missouri
James M. Lang, PhD
Professor of English & Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, Assumption College
Maria Marconi, EdD, RN, CNE
Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Rochester
Wren Mills, PhD
Pedagogical Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University
Amy B. Mulnix, PhD
Director of the Faculty Center, Franklin and Marshall College
Gary Pavela, JD
Faculty, Syracuse University
Danielle Schwinn
Instructional Design and Technology Consultant, Central Community College
Jim Sibley
Director, Faculty of Applied Science, University of British Columbia
Michael G. Strawser, PhD
Assistant Professor and Founder, Legacy Communication Training and Consulting LLC
Thomas Tobin, PhD
Program Area Director, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Maryellen Weimer, PhD
Professor Emerita, Penn State Berks
Purchase Options
| Group Enrollment Pricing | |
|---|---|
| 1 person | $199 |
| 2-9 people | $139 per person |
| 10-49 people | $109 per person |
| 50-99 people | $89 per person |
If you are not completely satisfied with your purchase, you may cancel the order within 30 days of purchase and receive a full refund.
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