Blog Feature Archives: Assess It!

Assess It! | May 6, 2015

The need for feedback

By ACERT and Lindsay Portnoy
Topics : Assess student work, Close the loop

Research indicates that when properly constructed, rubrics provide valuable feedback, engaging students in critical thinking, and offering support for developing writers. But how can you construct rubrics that help students improve their work on successive drafts?

Assess It! | April 28, 2015

How do you know when you don’t know?

By ACERT and Lindsay Portnoy
Topics : Assess student work

In my scholarly work I've studied the way people come to know what they don't know by looking at the questions they ask. In my teaching, I try to understand what it is students don't know by modeling and encouraging questioning.

Assess It! | March 30, 2015

Changing the question

By ACERT and Meredith Reitman
Topics : Identify outcomes

If you're not interested in what your assessment findings tell you - if you're not interested in the answer - then maybe it's time to change the question.

Assess It! | February 19, 2015

Great gen ed assessment

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

Faculty and staff from all over the state came to Hunter to talk about What Every College Graduate Should Know. The topic under discussion? How you know when they know.

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Blog Feature Archives: Assess It!

The need for feedback

How do you know when you don’t know?

Changing the question

Great gen ed assessment

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