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Grading Essays How-To: Use Macros to Save Time (Neal, R.)
Using macros in Microsoft Word to create comment banks to more efficiently grade essays.
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Assessment and Feedback Feedback, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
Streamlining Feedback on Summative Tasks (Heriot Watt University Learning + Teaching Academy)
Six ways to give feedback effectively and efficiently: collective oral reports, collective written reports, model answers with "exploded"…
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Feedback, Formative Assessment
Assessment Feedback Using Comment Banks: A Useful Approach? (Bray, J.)
A feedback method of efficiently giving high quality feedback through the use of IT and comment banks has been piloted on a large cohort of students…
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Feedback, Formative Assessment
Measuring value-added in higher education: Conditions and caveats. Results from using the Measure of Academic Proficiency and Progress (MAPP™) (Liu, O.L.)
This study examines how student progress in college, indicated by the performance difference between freshmen and seniors after controlling for…
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Summative Assessment
Selecting value-added models for postsecondary institutional assessment (Steedle, J.T.)
The research presented here demonstrates how value-added models can be compared on three criteria: reliability, year-to-year consistency and…
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Summative Assessment, Value Added Assessment
An approach to measuring cognitive outcomes across higher-education institutions (Klein, S.P. ; Kuh, G.D. ; Chun, M. ; Hamilton, L. and Shavelson, R.)
This study describes the results with a promising set of cognitive assessment tools that can be used to measure general as distinct from domain-…
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Summative Assessment, Value Added Assessment
Facilitating Your Online Discussions (Purdue Repository for Online Teaching and Learning)
Suggestions for designing and moderating discussions.
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Teaching and Learning Strategies Discussion
High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter (AACU)
A summary of high-impact practices that research suggests increase rates of student retention and student engagement.
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback, Teaching and Learning Strategies Active Learning, Collaborative Learning, ePortfolio, Exam Alternatives
Student attitudes toward group work among undergraduates in business administration, education, and mathematics (Gottschall, H. and Garcia-Bayonas, M.)
This study measured students' attitude towards group work. "Free riding" and the difficulty in coordinating schedules were identified…
Type: Article
Teaching and Learning Strategies Collaborative Learning
Inducing Self-Explanation: a Meta-Analysis (Bisra, K.; Liu,Q.; Nesbit, J.C.; Salimi, F.; and Winne, P.H.)
A meta-analysis on research that investigated learning outcomes for participants who received self-explanation prompts while studying or solving…
Type: Article
Teaching and Learning Strategies Cognitively Based Learning Interventions