Teaching Practices
- Assess regularly and avoid high-stakes exams, or use a mix of high-stakes and low-stakes. Use a variety of assessment types such as tests, quizzes, discussions, blogs, assignments and journals.
- Clarify the relationship between learning objectives and assessments.
- Create assignments that require students to record or give a presentation via webconferencing.
- Create cumulative assignments.
- Use custom rubrics for grading and feedback.
- Avoid using the same assessments from one semester to the next or across two different sections. Use different versions of assessments for a single course.
- Develop tests containing higher-order level questions that require analysis, synthesis, evaluation and application.
- Require writing assignments that build upon each other to detect consistency.
- Require students to incorporate their personal interests and experiences.
- Require a draft and final version of papers. Require abstracts.
- Require full citations for writing assignments and discussions, if appropriate.
- Ask students to submit copies of reference articles or books, annotated bibliographies, or previous drafts of their submission to encourage authenticity of the written work.