Insights into students’ assessment prep: Analyzing recorded lecture data
Discover how to analyze recorded lectures and gain insights into how students prepare for assessment tasks.
Access the resource (PDF)Peer assessment and FeedbackFruits
Have you tried using peer assessment in your courses? Peer assessment can help students reflect on their work and learn to provide constructive feedback. This webinar will introduce you to key parameters for designing peer assessment activities and get you started with FeedbackFruits - a tool to manage peer assessment online.
Register here!Assessment for learning to support well-being: Listen in!
To spark much-needed discussions around assessment for learning and its potential to foster healthier learning environments for both students and instructors, we invite you to listen to the Teach.Learn.Share podcast on assessment and well-being where members of the McGill community offer their perspectives on a range of topics.
Fostering student well-being through assessment
The Office of Science Education has been conducting a study on well-being in the classroom. This panel will share some thinking that has come from the study, with panelists discussing experiences and strategies for fostering student well-being in relation to assessment (e.g., flexible grade schemes). Attendees are invited to share questions in advance of and during the session.
Developing meaningful assessment criteria
Under PASL, instructors must include explicit criteria to describe the key elements of students’ learning. Did you know that having meaningful assessment criteria allows you to see whether students are learning what you want them to?
Quick quiz: Providing feedback: Commenting and grading
Feedback is a key ingredient of assessment for learning. Take this week’s quiz to explore the different strategies and resources available in the Teaching and Learning Knowledge Base for providing students with meaningful feedback.
Feedback strategies: Engaging students in dialogue
How can we engage students with feedback and encourage them to take greater responsibility for their learning before, during, and after assignments? The goal of this 4-part webinar series is to address these concerns with feedback strategies that engage students in dialogue. We will present several strategies suited to writing assignments such as essays, research (term) papers, and lab reports.
Consider Indigenous assessment approaches
This TL KB article offers links to resources that discuss the role of assessment in Indigenous cultures, and methods of assessing students’ learning in keeping with Indigenous knowledges and systems. As you read, consider which methods you might wish to implement in your courses. Read about McGill instructors' approaches to assessing student participation.
Course Design Workshop (in person)
In this hands-on workshop, we will discuss learning-centered course design principles and support you with developing an in-depth Course Plan, which you can use to help prepare your course outline. This is a great opportunity to exchange feedback among peers to improve course design and teaching approaches.
Getting started with Polling @ McGill
Interested to know how Polling @ McGill can be used to engage your students? This webinar will introduce you to different types of polling questions and when best to use them.
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Quick quiz: Assessment of experiential learning
Take this week’s quiz to test your knowledge about assessment of experiential learning.
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Listen in! Two-stage exams strategy exchange
Interested in learning about different ways to implement two-stage exams?
Design more effective rubrics: Tips for developing assessment criteria
The most important but also the most challenging part of designing a rubric is identifying the criteria to assess. In this video, we share four questions and an example to guide you with designing rubric criteria to effectively assess learning. After you watch the video, review one of your current assessment tasks to see the extent to which you address the four questions.
Quick quiz: Accessible assessment strategies
Accessible assessment strategies can be used to support student learning. Take this quick quiz to learn about recommendations for implementing accessible assessment strategies.
Take the quiz!Exploring assessment-related learning technologies
Are you curious about which learning technologies can be implemented to support assessment activities in your course? Check out this blog post to explore the various assessment-related technologies available to the McGill community.