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Tag Archives: assessment
Writing essays is not a generic skill
Chris Atherton‘s most recent blog post makes a great contribution to debates about assessment, and essay writing in particular. Getting Students to Build Things Out of Concrete (Examples, that is) Go read it and come back. This post started as … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Skills
Tagged academic literacies, assessment, Chris Atherton, essays, Finite Attention, skills, writing
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Is lecturing worthwhile?
I agree that lectures can be awful. The myth of the lecture delivered annually for 25 years without updating has, like all myths, some relationship to reality.
But it seems to me that there is a place for the lecture in higher education. And not just because this is what students expect. Continue reading
Which student are you writing this syllabus for?
In the online biz world standard advice about writing a blog post is that you should write to one reader. I’m not sure I always succeed, but it is sensible advice. Thinking back to the days when I planned courses, … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, athletes, course planning, effort, grading, graduate school, learning objectives, marking, passion, politics
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What is the purpose of your marking scheme?
Are you just assessing what students have learned? Or is part of your marking scheme really a behaviour modification scheme? Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Skills
Tagged assessment, attendance, behaviour modification, grading, marking, participation
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