Month: March 2022

“Building STEM Students’ Academic Work Confidence”
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To explore how you can “help students build problem-solving competence and build true confidence,” take a look at this article: “Building STEM Students’ Academic Work Competence” — https://thelearnwellprojects.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Building-STEM-Students-Academic-Work-Competence_v2022.pdf. As noted in the article, purposely working to ensure the instructor’s and students’ labor compliments each other may be the key to improved success (page 1).

Source: The Learnwell Projects, 2020, Accessed 3.31.22 from https://thelearnwellprojects.com/articles/.

Friday SLO Talk — Registration Open
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If you would like to learn more about rubrics and formative assessment, this professional-development opportunity is for you.

Text: Friday SLO Talk
    March 18, 2022, 10am – 12noon PST   Rubrics and Formative Assessment   REGISTRATION

Dear Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) Community, This week, we are going to discuss how to design and use rubrics for assessment of student learning.

Presenter:
Amy Svirsky, Ph.D. Student Learning Assessment Specialist
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 
Amy has worked in the field of assessment in both P-12 and Higher Education.
 
Amy’s assessment statement: Regardless of level, formative assessment is at the heart of effective teaching*. Rubrics are a tool for giving formative assessment, and helping students engage in their learning.

 
We are also going to be joined by GoReact Team to experience direct assessment of student learning as it happens in a classroom.

Discussion Moderators:
 
Grace Estrada, Evergreen Valley College   
Jarek Janio, Santa Ana College
Enrique Jauregui, Fresno City College
 

Get Students Engaged with Your Presentations
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Help students engage with your PowerPoint presentations by including a sentence frame/prompt/or question every few slides.

With a sentence frame, you share part of the sentence and prompt students to fill in the blanks. When placed intentionally, you can help students develop critical thinking and analytical skills.

Sample Sentence Frames:

  • I understand ____________________, but I wonder about _________________.
  • The author’s claim is that ____________, and she supports this claim by ____________________.

For more information about sentence frames, take a look at Using Templates and Sentence Frames available in my.avid.org.