Center for Learning & Teaching

This practical, evidence-based guide promotes excellence in teaching and improved student learning through self-reflection and self-assessment. The author reviews current approaches to instructor evaluation and describes their inadequacies. The book then presents a new model of assessing teaching that builds upon a broader base of evidence. This new model leads to self-assessment rubrics, with guidance on how to use them. Includes case studies from a variety of disciplines, to show how they can be used in different ways and how to explore the richness of the data you’ll uncover.

This practical book provides cost-efficient and useful tools that fulfill the requirements of accreditation agencies, legislatures, and review boards to ensure a simple, successful assessment process. In an easy-to-read manner, the author explores planning, budgeting, and changes in curriculum, pedagogy, and programming. The new edition addresses the use of standardized tests, portfolios, and e-portfolios for the assessment process, and includes new institution-wide planning tools for anyone in higher education.

This guide explains how evaluation can be more effective in enhancing the quality of teaching and learning, and introduces broader and more diverse forms of evaluation. It shows how to develop questionnaires and protocols which are valid, reliable and diagnostic. Also contains proven instruments that have undergone appropriate testing procedures, together with a substantial item bank. Offers both quantitative and qualitative solutions for evaluation at a wide range of levels: from classrooms, programs and departments to entire institutions.

50 Techniques for Engaging Students and Assessing Learning in College Courses Do you want to: Know what and how well your students are learning? Promote active learning in ways that readily integrate assessment? Gather information that can help make grading more systematic and streamlined? Efficiently collect solid learning outcomes data for institutional assessment? Provide evidence of your teaching effectiveness for promotion and tenure review? Learning Assessment Techniques provides 50 easy-to-implement active learning techniques that gauge student learning across academic disciplines and learning environments. Using Fink's Taxonomy of Significant Learning as its organizational framework, it embeds assessment within active learning activities.

This book presents a reframed approach to student learning outcomes assessment. Learn how and why student learning outcomes assessment can enhance student accomplishment and increase institutional effectiveness. Shift the view of assessment from being externally driven to internally motivated. Assessment results can help inform decision-making, manage change and improve student success This book offers both a compelling rationale and practical advice for making student learning outcomes assessment more effective and efficient.

This book offers online instructors guidance in creating and implementing e-portfolios with their students. Helps assess student needs, and design & implement a comprehensive e-portfolio program tailored to those needs. Further, it lets instructors see how such programs can be used for their own personal and professional academic development. This is an essential resource for any online instructor or student wishing to use e-portfolios.

Addresses the emerging requirements, concerns and applications for e-portfolios. Through innovative chapters on real-world uses, educational experiences, and ideal design, this book fills an important gap in current literature concerning Web 2.0 applications. The theoretical debate surrounding e-portfolios is also presented along with international viewpoints, providing an important contribution to the global discussion of representing knowledge in the 21st century.

This book articulates the foundations of an educational vision supported by eportfolio use, drawing on work in philosophy, sociology, higher and adult education, and elearning research. It is academically rigorous and accessible to scholars in a range of disciplines. Surveys the state-of-the-art in eportfolio practice and suggests future directions for curriculum, assessment, and technology.

A practical guide to improved performance and promotion/tenure decisions. Thoroughly revised and updated, this resource offers a comprehensive review of all the facets of developing a teaching portfolio. Contains an expanded section on web-based teaching portfolios, how some colleges and universities have implemented portfolios, real-world teaching portfolios of faculty members and a report from a university provost on what he looks for in a portfolios submitted for promotion.