Category: Assessment strategies
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Believing/Doubting
This is an activity taken from Peter Elbow’s classic book, Writing without Teachers (1973), which I have used both to help students become more effective peer reviewers, and to develop better skills at academic reading generally. The idea is to adopt first, a credulous readerly persona, who is inclined to believe every claim in a…
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Alternative assessment strategies and how they make teaching more fun
(this is the handout/notes page for a peer workshop session on alternative assessments) Examples of course-level structures that include alternative grading:
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Modes of engagement activity
This is an activity that can help students recognize and participate in different modes of scholarly engagement. You can do it orally in a group, as an individual or group writing activity, or as a precursor to identifying and characterizing modes of engagement in a course text, or in their own or their peers’ writing.…
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Using a “menu of options” assessment approach.
I have been experimenting with an approach to grading and feedback that I haven’t seen many other teachers doing, and a couple of people have asked for me to write it down. In the below I’m going to explain the “menu of options” approach I’m now using, and also say a bit about using pass/no…