ACERT, Mark Bobrow, Stephanie Margolin and Meredith Reitman

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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.

News and Announcements | April 7, 2016

Exploring Student Learning: Assessment Day 2016

By ACERT and Meredith Reitman
Topics : Events

Join us at our second annual Assessment Day, featuring presentations from Hunter's cohort of seven Assessment Fellows, each of whom is experimenting with ways to explore their students’ learning.

Assess It! | October 14, 2015

Danish educational humor: Part 3

By ACERT and Meredith Reitman
Topics : Assignments & exams, Course design, Identify outcomes, Map to assessments

Reflections on the award-winning video "Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding," which illustrates John Biggs' theory of "constructive alignment."

Assess It! | October 7, 2015

Danish educational humor: Part 2

By ACERT and Meredith Reitman
Topics : Assignments & exams, Course design, Identify outcomes, Map to assessments

Reflections on the award-winning video "Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding," which illustrates John Biggs' theory of "constructive alignment."

Assess It! | September 30, 2015

Danish educational humor: Part 1

By ACERT and Meredith Reitman
Topics : Assignments & exams, Course design, Identify outcomes, Map to assessments

Reflections on the award-winning video "Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding," which illustrates John Biggs' theory of "constructive alignment."

Assess It! | August 24, 2015

Responsible assessment (and ultimate frisbee)

By ACERT and Meredith Reitman
Topics : Assessment

How can assessment be turned into "a place of inclusive, sustained, and informed dialogue... that strives for validity rather than purpose and transparency?"

News and Announcements | May 4, 2015

Partnering with the Community – May 5

By ACERT and Meredith Reitman
Topics : Events, Office of Research Administration

Come to a forum on exploring partnerships with community organizations, organized by Hunter's Office of Research Administration.

News and Announcements | April 7, 2015

Making citizens at the AAC&U Conference

By ACERT and Meredith Reitman
Topics : Identify outcomes

How do we, as teachers, "make citizens" - people with the values, knowledge, and skills to be able to work with others to articulate and solve complex problems?

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.