Teaching Strategies:
Classroom Assessment Technique (CATs)
Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) allow instructors to monitor students’ progress throughout the term. CATs help answer the questions, “What are my students learning? How effectively am I teaching?” The articles and links in this section provide comprehensive information about CATs, including their purpose and their use across disciplines.
Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs): An Introduction (Penn State)
http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/pdf/Classroom_Assessment_Techniques_Intro.pdf
Resources:
Assessment of Teaching & Learning (U.S.C)
http://www.usc.edu/programs/cet/resources/assessment/
Improving Your Teaching: Obtaining Feedback (Adapted from Black, 2000)
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/gsis/P8_1php
Nine Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning(American Association for Higer Education)
http://www.oir.csus.edu/WASC/Resources/NinePrinciples_StudentLearning.pdf
Assessment terminology: A glossary of useful terms (New Horizons for Learning)
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/assess/terminology.htm
Using
Midterm Evaluations and Other Sources of Student Feedback on Teaching (Stanford University)
http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/postings/313.html
Midterm Student Feedback Service
at CRLT
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/gsis/gsimsf.php
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Group Instructional Diagnosis (National Teaching and LEarning Forum)
http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/9705/sgid.htm