Does Your Exam Make the Grade? Well-crafted exams benefit students and faculty alike. Students will learn, and consolidate their learning, by taking the test; they get to show how much they’ve learned, as well as where they’re still not grasping things. A well-designed exam gives us a more precise measure of learning, and better feedback […]
More Efficient Feedback
The papers, assignments, and projects are starting to pour in, and you may be starting to feel harried. An efficient feedback strategy can help lower the stress. When we’re responding to student work, it’s easy to expend a lot of energy and frustration reacting to the surface features (grammatical errors, citation format… etc.), but commenting on sentence-level errors […]