Creating a Dynamic Classroom Based on Student Feedback: Easy In-Class Assessment Techniques
Abstract
Standard assessments used across university courses provide only general information at the end of a term. These assessments fail to provide information about factors specific to individual departments, courses, and teaching styles. To encourage pedagogical development and dynamic teaching environments responsive to student needs, instructors can administer frequent and individualized assessments. Speakers will present several specific examples for assessing student learning and instructor effectiveness that can be customized to accommodate any teaching style and course topic. These tools can be administered anytime within a term, thereby allowing instructors to adjust pedagogical activities as needed. Beyond Question will be used during the seminar as a hands-on example of a real-time assessment tool. Attendees will generate an individualized list of questions pertaining to student learning and instructor effectiveness that they can administer in their own classes using one or more of the presented classroom assessment techniques.
Location
Room 1909
Recommended Citation
McNamara, Corinne; Kirsner, Beth; Taglialatela, Lauren; and Williamson, Adrienne, "Creating a Dynamic Classroom Based on Student Feedback: Easy In-Class Assessment Techniques" (2007). SoTL Commons Conference. 65.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2007/65
Creating a Dynamic Classroom Based on Student Feedback: Easy In-Class Assessment Techniques
Room 1909
Standard assessments used across university courses provide only general information at the end of a term. These assessments fail to provide information about factors specific to individual departments, courses, and teaching styles. To encourage pedagogical development and dynamic teaching environments responsive to student needs, instructors can administer frequent and individualized assessments. Speakers will present several specific examples for assessing student learning and instructor effectiveness that can be customized to accommodate any teaching style and course topic. These tools can be administered anytime within a term, thereby allowing instructors to adjust pedagogical activities as needed. Beyond Question will be used during the seminar as a hands-on example of a real-time assessment tool. Attendees will generate an individualized list of questions pertaining to student learning and instructor effectiveness that they can administer in their own classes using one or more of the presented classroom assessment techniques.
