Assessment and Evaluation

Grading Without Losing your Mind (or your Student’s Respect)

ByKim Pfeifer

Grad­ing is one of the most stress­ful and time-con­­sum­ing parts of teach­ing. The end­less hours spent assess­ing papers and assign­ments often come with a mix of frus­tra­tions, exhaus­tion and even self-doubt. The pres­sure to grade fair­ly, effi­cient­ly and mean­ing­ful­ly can feel over­whelm­ing, espe­cial­ly when it’s easy to feel buried under a moun­tain of assess­ments. But…

Rethinking Assessment: Exploring Alternative Grading Practices

ByKim Pfeifer

Alter­na­tive grad­ing prac­tices encom­pass a range of approach­es designed to move beyond tra­di­tion­al point-based sys­tems, fos­ter­ing mean­ing­ful learn­ing and growth. These meth­ods reimag­ine how stu­dent progress is assessed, focus­ing on col­lab­o­ra­tion, improve­ment, and deep­er engage­ment with the mate­r­i­al. Grad­ing for growth empha­sizes ensur­ing stu­dents demon­strate con­tin­u­ous improve­ment and com­pe­ten­cy devel­op­ment through­out their learn­ing jour­ney. These…

Creating Interactive Content for Brightspace — Free, Fast and Fun!

ByKim Pfeifer

If you are look­ing for adding more inter­ac­tive con­tent to your Bright­space cours­es, come join the NIC H5P Stu­dio Space! NIC has a space for instruc­tors to quick­ly build small inter­ac­tive con­tent items for adding to a Bright­space course. This free space is housed on a Word­Press site that NIC has set up for all…

Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning

ByKim Pfeifer

Dead Ideas in Teach­ing and Learn­ing is a pod­cast host­ed by Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty’s CTL Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Aman­da Irvin. Check out the URL to see all sea­sons list­ed, sum­maries, tran­scripts and top­ics! Dead ideas are per­sis­tent myths about teach­ing and learn­ing that instruc­tors believe and use! Check this great pod­cast series out. See more rec­om­mend­ed pod­casts…