Focus on Learning: Handouts, presentations, articles, and more . . .

 

Note: Any problems with links or materials should be sent to tutzauer@buffalo.edu

 

General

·         Essentials for teaching & learning: Presentation highlighting key instructional methods that foster learning

·         Teaching competencies: Collection of materials garnered online that address teaching competencies

 

Assessment

·         Assessment basics: Guide to assessing student learning outcomes

·         Assessment vs grading

·         Assessment methods

·         Authentic assessments

·         Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs): From Angelo & Cross (1993)

·         Rubric template: also available in editable Word format

·         Sample rubrics . . . for collaborative activities, oral presentations

 

Collaborative/cooperative learning

·         Notes on collaborative & group learning

·         Problems with student collaboration in courses: Article by King & Behnke (2005)

·         Collaborative activities for online courses

·         Effective online group activities

·         Forms: Sample forms that can be used to evaluate and assess cooperative learning activities

·         Sample rubric: Rubric that can be used to assess collaborative skills

 

Curriculum & course design

·         Course design for busy academics: Using learning outcomes to design a course and assess learning

·         Curriculum alignment: Presentation by Matveev (2008) that is a good guide to aligning courses with larger programmatic outcomes

 

Methods of teaching

·         Approaches to teaching: notes, presentation

·         Anchored instruction

·         Case-based teaching

·         Constructionism: Project-based learning

·         Cooperative learning

·         CORE model

·         Guided design model of instruction

·         Mastery-based learning: presentation, handout, and research brief

·         Outcomes-based education

·         Personalized system of instruction

·         Problem-based learning: also a sample course

·         Student-centered teaching

 

Research on teaching

·         Guide to research in psychology that can inform teaching

 

Testing & test construction

·         Testing for learning: workshop notes and article by James Joyner

·         Test construction and item analysis: presentation and handout

 

Writing outcomes

·         Writing learning outcomes: Guide to writing outcomes in behavioral terms

·         Video of a presentation relating to writing behavioral-based learning outcomes

 

 

 

 

Last revised 2014-08-04