Faculty Luncheon Series: Talking about our Teaching
Date and Time
Location
Student Assessment: What do you want your students to understand and how will you know when they understand it?
Discussion Leaders:
Eric Mazur, PhD, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
Fawwaz Habbal, PhD, Executive Dean for Education and Research; Senior Lecturer on Applied Physics
Eric Mazur, Faculty Director of The SEAS Learning Incubator (LInc) and Fawwaz Habbal, Executive Dean for Education and Research will lead faculty in a discussion around learning assessment, its key challenges and thoughts on addressing those challenges.
Suggested Readings:
Wieman, C. (2007). Why Not Try a Scientific Approach to Science Education? Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 39(5), 9-15.
Svinicki, M. &. McKeachie, W. J. (2011). McKeachie’s teaching tips: Strategies, research and theory for college and university teachers (13th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing. (Chapter 7: Assessing, Testing and Evaluating: Grading is not the Most Important Function).