Discipline Archives: Education

Assessment Breakfast: Assessment in Academic Support Units

By ACERT
Topics : ACERT, Assessment, Events

Wednesday
May 4, 2022
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Online - Please register

Assessment Breakfast: Assessment in Academic Support Units

Presenter(s): Joel Bloom (Office of Assessment); Daniel Hurewitz (Department of History); Barbara Barone (Director, Dolciani Math Center); Jack Kenigsberg (Interim Coordinator, Rockowitz Writing Center); Christina Medina-Ramirez (Director, Skirball Science Center); Vanderie Vielie (Interim Director, the Percy Ellis Sutton Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge Program (SEEK))

Join us to discuss measuring success with four of Hunter College’s most important academic support units. [Details...]

Event Capsules | February 11, 2020

TSC January 2020: Discussing The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux, by Cathy N. Davidson

By ACERT
Topics : ACERT, Assessment, Open Educational Resources, Pedagogy

In this year’s ACERT Teaching Scholarship Circle (TSC) we read and discussed Cathy N. Davidson’s book The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux. In her book, Davidson argues that university educators must substantially change how we teach in order to help our students succeed “in our age of precarious work and technological disruption.” Through our reading and discussion of her book, we analyzed and critiqued her transformational vision for higher education in America, and drew lessons for how we support students at Hunter and how, in Davidson’s words, “we can educate students not only to survive but to thrive amid the challenges to come.”

Teacher training using video analysis

By Gina Cherry
Topics : Rich media & presentation tools

What did you accomplish over the summer?

I found the summer meetings to be highly productive in planning and adapting this project to best fit the needs of my students. I collaborated with various members of the FITT staff, as well as The Frankfort Digital Video Project staff to create guided online and in-person session for students to utilize video as part of their training.

This project will provide students with more ‘hands-on’ experience in preparing, developing and administering language assessments.

How did your thinking about your project evolve?

This project has evolved greatly from its original plan of creating online learning modules which included online video examples of language assessments. At our Initial FITT meeting through conversations with past and present FITT awardees I began to plan to create new videos of students administering language assessments to add to the Hunter Video Analysis library. The power of using video has been demonstrated in training teachers and is an on-going goal of the School of Education. I believe my FITT project has been improved by engaging students in the process of creating and analyzing videos of their own practice.