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.
Resources: Peer Review & Evaluation
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: 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.
Optimizing Open-ended Ancillary Assessments: Brightspace Quizzes vs Assignments
In this Faculty Showcase on Brightspace from November 2024 Jennifer Bankard compares and assesses the effectiveness of Brightspace quizzes versus assignments regarding open-ended homework questions or projects.
Rubrics
This resource describes different kinds of rubrics and considerations for selecting a rubric best aligned with an instructor’s grading practice, assignments, and learning objectives. Examples of rubrics are provided.
Keywords: rubric, assessment, assignment, evaluation, learning objective
A checklist of considerations for effective student feedback
This resource provides a checklist of considerations for providing student feedback verbally, in writing, or through video.
Using AI Tools for Student Assignments
This video, presented by CET, provides a brief introduction to AI generators with considerations and examples of how these tools can be incorporated into assignments to advance student learning.
Ungrading and Grading for Equity
Kiran Dhillon, Annenberg School of Communication; Lori Mesrobian, Dornsife Latin American and Iberian Cultures; Kendra Walther, Viterbi Information Technology Program; and Mellissa Withers, KSOM Population and Public Health Sciences, participants in the 2022-2023 Faculty Learning Community on Alternative Assessments and Grading Practices, share their experiences with the implementation, lessons learned, challenges, and opportunities of ungrading and grading for equity. The ideas discussed during this roundtable can be further explored in these books and articles.
MetaLecture: the educational experience of reversed roles
Raffaella Ghittoni of Dornsife Biological Sciences discusses incorporating mini-lectures by students on selected topics at the August 2022 Faculty Showcase.