1. A thread for my fellow college and university instructors, though high school teachers and students may be interested as well. Amidst the pandemic we're all trying to adapt to giving and taking exams online. The "simple" solution is to keep writing exams as we always have...

Over the past semester or two, as COVID has been disrupting most parts of our lives, I’ve been thinking more about teaching, learning, and assessment in my classes. This is more than just an opportunity to modify my practice when things go sideways. I think this pandemic has given us an opportunity to think deeply... Continue reading →

IntroductionI recently offered a series of "small things you can do tomorrow to start ungrading." I’ve never been a fan of best practices. In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks writes about bringing our full selves to the classroom, and creating space for students to bring their full selves. This

A classic study finds some eye-opening effects of different feedback on learning

Just getting rolling(already a day behind! argh!) in a week-long @BCcampus FLO Micro-course on Alternative & Authentic Assessment with @NickiRehn and @olaoluadeleye. I'll use this thread to drop in stuff about what I learn throughout the week!

h/t Josh Eyler Two common ways that instructors assess participation in sociology courses are recalling participation by memory or counting times spoken during class in real t...

Looking for resources (not replies, but links/research/posts) about the psychology of deadlines: how they hurt, how they help, how to make them flexible w/o decreasing focus/motivation. Anything welcome! To share w/ fac who're probing challenges of relaxing/eliminating deadlines.

Inclusive teaching might argue for assessments other than exams, but how might we make an exam more inclusive? I'm looking for examples of inclusive exams, if there is such at thing. Seen any?

Why a professor no longer grades students on how much they speak up in class.

I use a form, too! I just set it up on Google Forms and all students have to do is fill out the assignment, the original due date, their new due date and their plan for completing the work. Then the form comes to my email and I can reach out to them. ♥️— Rebecca Stone (@stone_prof) February 11, 2021