Workshop Schedule
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Location: Lookout Room, SUB
8:30 am – Noon
Making the Grading Process Fair, Time-Efficient, and Effective for Student Learning and Using the Grading Process for Departmental Decisions
Audience: A workshop for Faculty and Department/Program Chairs.
Description: Participants will emerge from the workshop with practical ideas for improving grading in their classrooms and for basing departmental decisions on classroom information about student learning.
The following questions will be addressed during the session:
- How do I ensure that my grades actually reflect the learning I most want for my students?
- How can I make grading fair and consistent for all my students?
- How can we make grading consistent across sections of the same course?
- How can we deal effectively with "grade inflation"?
- How can we help students focus on the learning, not just on the grade?
- How can we make grading time-efficient?
- How can we use classroom evaluation of student learning for departmental and program-level improvement?