Archive | Assessment

What We’re Reading | April 19, 2016

Make It Stick

By ACERT, Mark Bobrow, Stephanie Margolin and Meredith Reitman
Topics : Assess student work, Assignments & exams, Course design

Members of the ACERT community share their responses to "Make It Stick." This book challenges conventional thinking about student learning, with a particular focus on how inefficient and unproductive strategies and practices are often reinforced by educators.

Measuring what counts: Credentials or learning?

By ACERT
Topics : Assess student work, ePortfolios

Wednesday
Mar 2, 2016
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
ICIT Conference Room

Measuring what counts: Credentials or learning?

Presenter(s): Anya Kamanetz (author of "The Test" and lead digital education reporter for NPR), Leah Gilliam (VP of Strategy and Innovation for Girls Who Code), and Bret Eynon (VP for Academic Affairs at LaGuardia Community College)

This livestreamed discussion, hosted by CUNY's Futures Initiative, will focus on the social and political implications of the ways we test, grade, measure, rank, and assess. [Details...]

Exploring Student Learning: Assessment Day 2016

By ACERT
Topics : Assess student work, Close the loop, Identify outcomes, Map to assessments

Wednesday
Apr 20, 2016
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Chanin (B126 HW)

Exploring Student Learning: Assessment Day 2016

Presenter(s): Manashi Chatterjee (Chemistry), Jennifer DeGregorio (English), Bryan Dowling (Psychology), Kirsten Grant (Chemistry), Stephanie Margolin (Library), Maria Nelson (Special Education), Elizabeth Wall-O'Brien (Advising)

Come hear the 2015-2016 Assessment Fellows talk about their use of assessment to innovate within their courses and programs. [Details...]

Refine your assignments to explore student learning

By ACERT
Topics : Assignments & exams, Map to assessments

Wednesday
Mar 23, 2016
10:00 am - 11:30 am
1203 HE

Refine your assignments to explore student learning

Presenter(s): Meredith Reitman (Office of Assessment and ACERT)

Come learn how to design assignments that best allow you to see what your students know. [Details...]

Learning outcomes mini boot camp

By ACERT
Topics : Identify outcomes

Wednesday
Apr 6, 2016
10:00 am - 11:30 am
1203 HE

Learning outcomes mini boot camp

Presenter(s): Bryan Dowling (Psychology) and Meredith Reitman (Office of Assessment and ACERT)

Come join guest facilitator Bryan Dowling from Psychology as he leads this interactive workshop on creating and revising learning outcomes. [Details...]

Assess your program: Find out what your majors are really learning

By ACERT
Topics : Assessment

Wednesday
Mar 9, 2016
10:00 am - 11:30 am
1203 HE

Assess your program: Find out what your majors are really learning

Presenter(s): Meredith Reitman (Office of Assessment and ACERT)

Come learn how to design, implement and learn from program assessment to get better information about what your majors know and are able to do once they graduate. [Details...]

Assess anything you like with rubrics

By ACERT
Topics : Assess student work

Wednesday
Feb 24, 2016
10:00 am - 11:30 am
1220 HE

Assess anything you like with rubrics

Presenter(s): Meredith Reitman (Office of Assessment and ACERT)

Learn the technique then work as a group to create and apply a custom rubric in a fun context. [Details...]

Assess It! | November 30, 2015

Students as researchers: Using Google’s DocuViz to learn about how you write

By ACERT and Andrew Laudel
Topics : Assess student work, Assignments & exams, Group work, Online writing and reflection

Students use DocuViz, a Google app that visualizes how documents evolve, to explore the fundamental questions: what do you do when you write, and why?

ACERT Connections | November 16, 2015

Chemistry meets education

By ACERT
Topics : Assess student work, Assignments & exams

Hear about how Lindsay Portnoy (Education) and Mandë Holford (Chemistry) met at an ACERT event and embarked on a series of collaborations, including cross-class assignments and the development of an educational game.