Center for Excellence in TeachingCET Review of Instructor Assessment and Grading Practices Guide
A guide for conducting a review of an instructor’s assessment and grading practices through the submission of graded student work examples.
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Brief Peer Review Tool: Syllabus
This document offers a peer review framework with criteria and rubrics that instructors can use to evaluate a colleague’s course syllabus and provide feedback on clarity, alignment, transparency, and student support.
Brief Peer Review Tool: Alignment of Assessments with Learning Objectives
This document provides a peer review tool with criteria and rubrics that instructors can use to evaluate how well a colleague’s assessments align with learning objectives and offer feedback on rigor, clarity, and equity.
Brief Peer Review Tool: Assignment Descriptions and Rubrics
This document offers a peer review framework with criteria and rubrics that instructors can use to evaluate a colleague’s course assignment descriptions and associated rubrics to provide feedback on clarity, alignment, transparency, and student support.
Brief Peer Review Tool: Active Learning
This document provides a structured peer review tool with submission guidelines and a rubric that instructors can use to evaluate a colleague’s active learning lesson plan and offer targeted feedback on engagement, inclusion, and effectiveness.
Student Use of AI in Assignments: A Decision Protocol for Instructors
This six-step decision protocol helps instructors determine when and how students should use AI in assignments by anchoring those decisions in learning objectives and core thinking skills. It guides instructors to map assignment workflows, evaluate where AI supports or undermines learning, and produce clear, student-facing guidance on appropriate AI use. It includes a note-capture template and a worked example of the protocol.
Assignment Description Template
This Assignment Description Template offers a clear, adaptable format you can use to support student success and transparency on assignments.
Assignments
This resource supports instructors in designing purposeful, transparent assignments that promote student learning and are manageable to assess. It includes research-informed strategies, templates, and examples adaptable across course contexts.
Teaching With AI
A practical guide to navigating the opportunities and challenges of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in your teaching. It offers strategies, examples, and prompts to enhance learning, streamline teaching, support students, and address key ethical and pedagogical concerns.
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Community Building Activities
This resource provides guidance for incorporating community building activities into a course to foster belonging, increase engagement, and build collaboration and communication skills. It includes strategies and considerations for using community building activities as well as sample activities categorized by purpose. Keywords: community building, icebreakers, belonging, inclusion, collaboration, group work.