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IV. TEACHING RESOURCES

Assessment of Student Learning

Classroom Assessment

Detailed Descriptions with Disciplinary Examples of Selected CATs
http://www.siue.edu/~deder/assess/catmain.html

Example of classroom assessment techniques from Southern Illinois University.

Resources: Assessment of Teaching & Learning
http://www.usc.edu/programs/cet/resources/assessment/

Links to resources and presentations at USC.

Improving Your Teaching: Obtaining Feedback (Adapted from Black, 2000)
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/gsis/P8_1.html

Sources of information that you can use to improve teaching: student feedback, self evaluation, peer observation, viewing a videotape of your teaching

Astin, A., et al., (1996). "American association for higher education principles of good practice for assessing student learning."
http://www.oir.csus.edu/WASC/Resources/NinePrinciples_StudentLearning.pdf

Dickinson, D. (1995, September). "Assessment terminology: A glossary of useful terms. New Horizons for Learning."
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/assess/terminology.htm

Using Midterm Evaluations and Other Sources of Student Feedback on Teaching (Michele Marincovich)
http://sll.stanford.edu/projects/tomprof/newtomprof/postings/313.html

Midterm Student Feedback Service at CRLT
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/gsis/gsimsf.html

Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (Tom Creed)
http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/9705/sgid.htm

Classroom Assessment Techniques

http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/assess.htm

Classroom Assessment Techniques

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/assess-2.htm

Constructing Good Tests
Information about constructing good tests, written by Jon Mueller, Professor of Psychology at North Central College in Naperville, IL.
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/tests.htm

Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment

http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/assmt/resource.htm

Assessment Megasite

Testing and Grading

Basics of Testing and Measurement
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cte/resources/teach.html#learning

Improving Multiple Choice Questions (IDEA Paper, KSU)
http://www.idea.ksu.edu/resources/Papers.html (Paper #16 - PDF file)

Improving Multiple Choice Questions (UNC)
http://ctl.unc.edu/fyc8.html

Improving Essay Tests (IDEA Paper, KSU)
http://www.idea.ksu.edu/resources/Papers.html (Paper #17 - PDF file)

Writing and Grading Essay Questions (UNC)
http://ctl.unc.edu/fyc7.html

Ten Simple Strategies for Grading Writing
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/gsis/P7_1.html.

Commenting Effectively on Student Writing
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/gsis/P7_2.html

Grading Student Work

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cft/resources/teaching_resources/assessment/grading.htm

Writing Assignments

Writing for Learning,Not Just Demonstrating Learning
http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/writing.htm

Pedagogical Theory and Practice: Responding to Student Writing
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/UofM/Content/SWC/document/SpecialMarch99.pdf

A Short Guide to College Writing
http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/resources/collegewriting/

Classroom Management/Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity in the Classroom

MMC Honor Code

http://www.martinmethodist.edu/academics/policies/honorcode

Plagiarism and the Challenge of Essay Writing: Learning from our Students
http://facstaff.elon.edu/sullivan/cheatpap.htm

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm

Questioning Author(ity): ESL/EFL, science, and teaching about plagiarism
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej10/a2.html

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab: Avoiding Plagiarism
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej10/a2.html

Good reference for students.

Indiana University: WTS Pamphlets
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ewts/pamphlets.shtml

Good reference for students.

Online interactive plagiarism knowledge test from Indiana University
http://education.indiana.edu/~frick/plagiarism/item1.html

Pen and paper plagiarism knowledge test from CRLT at the University of Michigan
http://www.lib.umich.edu/acadintegrity/instructors/preventing/plagiarism.htm

Another educational activity for students.

Plagiarism and Anti-Plagairism
http://newark.rutgers.edu/%7Eehrlich/plagiarism598.html

"Cheating on Exams" from the Teaching Resources Center at UC-Davis
http://trc.ucdavis.edu/trc/services/testing/cheat.html

Tools for Teaching: Preventing Academic Dishonesty
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/prevent.html

"Plagiarism: A Good Practice Guide"
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/brookes.pdf

From the JISC Electronic Plagiarism Detection Project.

Detecting Plagiarism

http://www.lib.umich.edu/acadintegrity/instructors/violations/decisiontree.htm

Center for Academic Integrity

http://www.academicintegrity.org/

Creating an Effective Learning Climate

CRLT GSI Guidebook: Creating Inclusive College Classrooms
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/gsis/P3_1.html

Incivility in the College Classroom

Reducing Incivility in the University/College Classroom (Patrick J. Morrissette)
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~iejll/volume5/morrissette.html

Missed Expectations: Incivility in the Classroom
http://www.nea.org/he/advo00/advo0003/feature.html

When New Teachers Meet the Classroom Terrorist
http://www.clt.cornell.edu/campus/teach/grad/carlson/terrorist.html

Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom
http://bokcenter.fas.harvard.edu/docs/hotmoments.html

Managing the Classroom and Relating to Students (.pdf)
(Appendix A from The Penn State Teacher II – srcoll down to pg. 138)
http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/pdf/PennStateTeacherII.pdf

Classroom Management
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/tscm.html

Bibliography of Print Resources (.pdf)
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/Incivility–bibliography.doc.pdf

Evaluation and Documentation of Teaching Effectiveness

Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness

Student Ratings:
Recent Literature Review on Student Ratings
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/departments/VPA/usri/appendix4.html

Summary of Student Ratings Research

(IDEA Paper No. 32) http://www.idea.ksu.edu/resources/Papers.html

What Do They Know Anyway?
http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Columns/Eval.html

Questions Frequently Asked About Student Rating Forms: Summary of Research Findings
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/studentratingfaq.html

Peer Review of Teaching

Peer Review of Teaching
http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/peer_review/intro.html

It Takes One to Know One.
http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Columns/Peer-rev.html

How do I design a peer review program?
http://teachingacademy.wisc.edu/Assistance/MOO/design.htm

How do I conduct a review of a colleague's teaching?
http://teachingacademy.wisc.edu/Assistance/MOO/reviewer.htm

Creating an Evaluation Plan
How to Evaluate Teaching.
http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Columns/Teacheval.pdf

Guidelines for Evaluating Teaching
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/guidelines.html

Persistent Problems in Evaluating College Teaching http://cedar.olemiss.

edu/depts/vc_academic_affairs/problems.html

Teaching Philosophy/Teaching Statement

Developing a Philosophy of Teaching Statement (Ohio State)
http://ftad.osu.edu/portfolio/philosophy/Philosophy.html

Rubric for Statements of Teaching Philosophy

http://www.crlt.umich.edu/gsis/onedayPFF2005/TeachingPhilosophyRubric.pdf

How to Write a Teaching Philosophy for Academic Employment
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/resources/ACS/ACSContent/careers/empres/careers_academicnews.pdf

Sample Teaching Philosophies
http://www.usask.ca/gmcte/portfolios/parts.php

Teaching Portfolios and Course Portfolios

Developing a Teaching Portfolio
http://ftad.osu.edu/portfolio/

Sample Portfolios from Various Disciplines
http://wings.buffalo.edu/provost/ctlr/files/teaching_portfolio.htm#sample_portfolios

Teaching Styles

Hoyt, Donald, & Eun–Joo Lee, "Teaching ‘Styles’ and Learning Outcomes", IDEA Papers Research Reports, 4 (Nov. 2002).
http://www.idea.ksu.edu/reports/research4.pdf

Learning Styles and Theories

Informal Learning

Student Learning Outside the Classroom: Transcending Artificial Boundaries
http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/94-8dig.htm

Learning Styles

Links to Web Articles and a Learning Styles Inventory
http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Learning_Styles.html

Student Learning Styles and Their Implications for Teaching by Susan M. Montgomery & Linda N. Groat, 1998.
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/publinks/CRLT_no10.pdf

Learning Style Can Become Learning Strategies (W.J. Mckeachie, University of Michigan)
http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/9511/article1.htm

Overview of Learning Styles
http://www.learning-styles-online.com/overview/

Motivating Students

Capturing and Directing the Motivation to Learn (Acrobat Document Download)
http://ctl.stanford.edu/Newsletter/motivation_to_learn.pdf

Motivating Students' Best Work
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/compendium/sectionlists/sect20.html

Teaching FAQs: Motivating Students
http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/faqs/motivatingstudents/motivating.html

Tools for Teaching: Motivating Students
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/motivate.html

Study Skills

Academic Center for Excellence at University of Illinois at Chicago
http://www.uic.edu/depts/counselctr/ace/practic1.htm

Critical Thinking

Center for Critical Thinking

http://www.foundationcoalition.org

Multiculturalism/Diversity in Teaching

CRLT Occasional Paper #7: Perceptions of Faculty Behavior by Students of Color
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/CRLT_no7.pdf

CRLT Occasional Paper #8: Academic Support for Women in Science and Engineering
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/CRLT_no8.pdf

Race, Gender, and Affirmative Action
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~eandersn/biblio.htm

Teaching Methods/Approaches

Active Learning

Definitions of Active Learning (University of California at Davis)
http://trc.ucdavis.edu/trc/ta/tatips/activelearning.pdf

Professional Development Module on Active Learning
http://www.texascollaborative.org/activelearning.htm

Active and Cooperative Learning (R.M. Felder)
http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Cooperative_Learning.html

Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom (Charles C. Bonwell & James A. Eison)
http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/91-9dig.htm

Case-based Teaching

The Case Method and the Interactive Classroom (By John Foran)
http://www2.nea.org/he/heta01/images/s01p41.pdf

Using Cases in Teaching
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/cases/

Clinical and Lab Teaching

Web sources on Clinical Teaching and Learning
http://cte.umdnj.edu/clinical_education/index.cfm

Cooperative Learning

The Cooperative Learning Center at the University of Minnesota
http://www.co-operation.org

Effective Strategies for Cooperative Learning
http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Papers/CLStrategies(JCCCT).pdf

Enhancing Learning - and More! - Through Cooperative Learning (By Millis)
http://www.idea.ksu.edu/papers/Idea_Paper_38.pdf

The Foundation Coalition
Contains information on cooperative learning, student teams, technology-enabled learning, curriculum integration, and information on engineering classes.
http://www.foundationcoalition.org

Discussion

Teaching by Discussion
http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/pdf/Teaching_by_Discussion.pdf

Improving Discussions (By Cashin and McKnight)
http://www.idea.ksu.edu/papers/Idea_Paper_15.pdf

FAQs: Discussions
http://www.iub.edu/~teaching/allabout/faq/leading.shtml

First Day(s) of Class

A Great Beginning: Ten Unspoken Questions for New College Students During the First Days of Class
http://www.uiowa.edu/~centeach/resources/ideas/greatbegin.html

The First Day of Class

http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/firstday.html

Technology in Teaching

Scholarship in Teaching

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: What's the Problem?
http://www.doit.gmu.edu/archives/feb98/randybass.htm

The Scholarship of Teaching
http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v22n1/p03.html

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: An Annotated Bibliography

http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/dynamic/downloads/file_1_196.pdf

The Scholarship of Teaching Articles

Bender, E. & Gray, E. (1999, April). The scholarship of teaching. [Electronic Version]. The Scholarship of Teaching, Research & Creative Activity, 22, http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ercapub/v22n1/p03.html

The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) Bibliography on the Scholarship of Teaching & learning at: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/elibrary/docs/bibliography.htm

Hutchings, P. (n.d.). Approaching the scholarship of teaching and learning. Introduction to opening lines: Approaches to the scholarship of teaching and learning http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/elibrary/docs/approaching.htm

Hutchings, P. & Shulman, L.S. (1999). The scholarship of teaching: New elaborations, new developments. Originally published in the September/October 1999 issue of Change. http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/elibrary/docs/sotl1999.htm

Shulman, L. S.(2002). Making differences: A table of learning. Originally published in Change, November/December 2002. Volume 34, Number 6. Pages 36-44. http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/elibrary/docs/making_differences.htm

Shulman, L.S. (n.d.). Inventing the future. Conclusion to opening lines: Approaches to the scholarship of teaching and learning. http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/elibrary/docs/inventing.htm

Shulman, L.S. (1999). Taking learning seriously. Originally published in the July/August 1999 issue of Change. http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/elibrary/docs/taking.htm

Other Topics

Teaching Student Athletes

Student Athletes in Your Classroom
This article by Carolyn Lieberg from the University of Iowa describes instructor behaviors that might detract from the learning done by student athletes.

HOOS on the Team? Maximizing the Academic Performance of Student-Athletes
Written by Jacquie Bussie, a TRC Graduate Student Associate and graduate student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, this article outlines some approaches that instructors can use to connect to the issues faced by student athletes.

Accommodating Student Athletes In the Classroom

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cft/resources/teaching_resources/interactions/athletes.htm

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