Documentation:Course Design Intensive/Facilitators Guidebook/Day 2 Resources
Day 2 Resources
- Align Assessments: Carnegie-Mellon's (Eberly Centre) resource for checking alignment between learning outcomes, assessments and activities.
- Variation on Assessment Methods and Types: visualizing your assessment plan at a glance.
- Course Design Examples by Disciplines:
Learning Outcomes
- CMU's Eberly Teaching Centre's Guide to Learning Objectives
- Checklist for writing outcomes. See pages 1-4 of University of Waterloo’s Course Design Fundamentals worksheet.
- Brief videos on Learning Outcomes and Bloom's Taxonomy
- 6 Facets of Understanding - primer
- for a visual representation of Fink's Significant Learning, see Fink, D. (2007) The Power of Course Design to Increase Student Engagement and Learning
Assessment
- Helping Students Reflect on their Mid-Term Performance: Not Just Their Grade: UBC Faculty of Science.
- Classroom Assessment Techniques: a guide from Vanderbilt University - Centre for Teaching
- Beyond the Essay: Making Student Thinking Visible in the Humanities by Nancy Chick, CFT, Assistant Director.
- Grading Student Work - Vanderbilt University - Centre for Teaching.
- Provide Feedforward with Exemplars411: method on gearing feedback towards future performance - Maryellen Weimer
- Assessing Learning: Resources from Vanderbilt University - Centre for Teaching.
- Flexible Assessment: Rideout, C. (2017). Students’ choices and achievement in large undergraduate classes using a novel flexible assessment approach. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, p.1-11.
- Exam Wrapper
- Cognitive Wrapper Template Teaching Naked - José Antonio Bowen
- Discipline Specific Exam Wrappers: Carnegie Mellon University:
- Does the Strategy Work: A look at exam wrappers: Mary-Ellen Weimer - Faculty Focus (June 2017)
- Exam Wrapper
- 2 Stage Exam Process
- Multiple choice, multiple students: The merits of the two-stage test : brief and excellent article explaining the value and processes used in two stage exams at UBC.
- Two Stage Exams (CWSEI, UBC) a good overview of the process and associated effective practices.
- 2 Stage Exam Process
- Peer Assessment
- What is peer assessment and how can it be implemented?: U of T at Austin: good overview and discussion of common problems with the approach and strategies to address them.
- Assessment Matters: U of Waikato Self Assessment and Peer Assessment: thorough overview of effective practices related to self and peer assessment methods.
- Peer Assessment - Cornell University: the what, why and the how.
- Learning Technology Hub: Peer assessment tools and support
- Peer Assessment
- Rubrics
- Rubric for Creating Rubrics: Buck Institute for Education.
- Sample Rubrics: extensive list of sample rubrics for a variety of disciplines.
- Sample Rubrics: Philosophy Rubric: Dr. Joseph Topornycky
- Creating and Using Rubrics: Carnegie-Mellon - Eberly Centre for Teaching
- Rubric for 6 Facets of Understanding (Wiggins & McTighe)
- Rubrics
- Wikipedia Projects - UBC Examples
- SPAN312 Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation Jon Beasley-Murray
- HIST 396 North American Environmental History Tina Loo
- Linguistics Rose-Marie Déchaine
- FNH 200 Exploring Our Foods Judy Chan
Learning Research
- How People Learn - Teaching guide from Vanderbilt University
- Principles of Learning - Eberly Center for Teaching: Carnegie Mellon University
References
Allan, J. (1996). Learning outcomes in higher education. Studies in Higher Education 21(1): 93-108.
Harden, R. M. (2002). Learning outcomes and instructional objectives: is there a difference?. Medical teacher, 24(2), 151-155.
Kennedy, D., Hyland, A., Ryan, N. (2009). Learning outcomes and competences. Bologna Handbook, Introducing Bologna Objectives and Tools. Retrieved from: http://www.procesbolonski.uw.edu.pl/dane/learning-outcomes.pdf
Writing Learning Outcomes: A Guide for Academics (2007). Retrieved from: http://www.mon.gov.mk/images/documents/nacionalna_ramka/wlopml.pdf