Imagine a bodybuilder in training, let’s call him Ronnie, who is about to attempt an 800 lbs squat. This time, however, his trainer has brought …
Assessment
Peer Evaluations: An Evolving Approach
I wanted students to give constructive evaluations of their peers. Without grades attached, the process wouldn’t gain any momentum, but attaching grades to peer evaluations …
AUC Faculty Perspectives on Online Assessment
In this issue, we summarize two faculty members’ assessment practices, which they each discussed with CLT in an interview, and which we then transcribed and summarized.
Showcase of AUC Faculty Teaching During Emergency Online Instruction – Spring 2020
CLT has been collecting samples of good teaching practices from AUC faculty during the period of emergency online instruction. Although there are many known good practices for online teaching, we felt it would be useful to collect stories of what faculty feel has worked well
Why I have a problem with our use of Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs)…and what we can do about it
Last November, I attended a conference in Dubai the theme of which was “Continuous Learning in the Journey of Education: Using Analytics to Measure Progress …
Can Accreditation Stimulate Change?
In summer 2018 , AUC’s Bachelor of Science Program in Actuarial Science received ABET accreditation for the duration of six years until 2024. ABET (http://www.abet.org/) …