Category: CATL Blog Posts
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Writing Effective Multiple-Choice Questions
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What does a “good” multiple-choice question look like? What aspects influence a multiple-choice assessment’s reliability and validity in terms of assessing target learning outcomes? Although the answers to these questions may vary depending on who you ask, there are common themes that emerge when you look at recommendations from assessment experts. Check out these seven…
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Creating Intentional and Impactful Multiple-Choice Assessments
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Multiple-choice quizzes are one of the most common forms of assessment in higher education, as they can be used in courses of nearly every discipline and level. Multiple-choice questions are also one of the quickest and easiest forms of assessment to grade, especially when administered through Canvas or another platform that supports auto-grading. Still, like…
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Sandbox Courses: A Time-Saving Tool for Course Design and Collaboration
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The University of Wisconsin – Green Bay uses Canvas as its Learning Management System (LMS). When instructors participate in professional development opportunities offered by the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL), they often encounter information about creating a Canvas Sandbox course. But what exactly is a sandbox course? This blog post will…
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Why Didn’t Anyone Do Today’s Reading? – Engaging Students by Building Relationships
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Article by Pamela Rivers The semester is well under way. Your students have taken their first exam. Some are active and excelling. Others have stopped coming to class or are not completing the assigned readings. Welcome to the end of September. Maybe you thought this time it wouldn’t happen. Everyone was eager and excited and…
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Raising Student Evaluation Response Rates
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Student evaluations of teaching play a crucial role in professional and course development and in the personnel review process. If they are to be useful, it is important that the data they provide be as accurate as possible. Unfortunately, students are not always motivated to complete them, perhaps because they don’t realize their voice is…