Best Practices
Active Learning
The Adult Learner
Alternative Assessment
Minimize Cheating?
Good Teaching
Learning Outcomes
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Listed below are suggestions for types of assessments or assignments that can be graded or ungraded. These assignments may be formative or summative. Alternative assessments can encourage critical thinking skills and provide instructors with a clearer view of student progress.
- Paraphrasing
- The Muddiest Point
- The Minute Paper
- Hands-on Projects
- Transfer and Apply
- Collaborative learning or study groups or group projects
- Analyze Case Studies
- Participation in discussions, answering assigned questions, and comment on other's comments. (WebCT Discussions can support this for on-campus or online courses.)
- Interactive Computer Activities or Games
- Submission of links to a "URL bank" (Students can be asked to search Web sites or evaluate Web sites.
View a rating form for web sites, and
view guidelines for Evaluating Website Content. and provide URLs related to an assigned topic. These can further be shared with a class and explained.
- Student Generated PowerPoint Presentations
- Objective Testing
- Student Generated Test Questions
- Consider using Journals or
Learning Logs.
Here's a example of a learning log for a writing assignment. (In a learning log, students record activities, questions, and outcome sentences for each lesson and keep a record. These can be used to review for tests and share in class to further discussion or for reinforcement. Students can work in groups to share their logs for a particular lesson then summarize and present to the class.)
- Peer Critiques (Search the Web for Peer Critiques and you will find many examples. Here are a couple that address the organization and development of a peer critique:
- Class Portfolios.
Here's a description and suggested content for a class portfolio.
- Research Projects
- Analysis or reactions to videos
- Student debates
- Write and produce a newsletter
- Student-led review sessions
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