#  Faculty Luncheon Series: Talking about our Teaching 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 31, 2017** 

 01:00PM - 02:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **The Brooks Room, 213 Pierce Hall**  



 

 



 

 **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).



 

 



 

 

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