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.

Sources: CET | Formats: Document | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: All Disciplines

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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Sources: CET | Formats: Document | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: All Disciplines

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

| Formats: Document | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: All Disciplines

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.

Sources: CET | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty | Disciplines: All Disciplines, Arts, Clinical, Humanities, Social Science, STEM

Incorporating non-traditional assessment methods to engage students in online courses

Tracy Bastain of Keck Population and Public Health Sciences discusses incorporating team debates, peer reviews, and other non-traditional approaches to assess mastery of course concepts at the August 2022 Faculty Showcase.

Sources: CET, USC Faculty | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty | Disciplines: Clinical, STEM

Cooperative assessment

Susan Berg of Bovard College discusses an interactive approach to assessment at the August 2022 Faculty Showcase.

Sources: CET | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty | Disciplines: Arts, Humanities, Social Science

Pedagogical approaches to contract grading in composition

Rory Lukins from the Dornsife writing program discusses a study on the implementation of contract grading in composition courses at the August 2022 Faculty Showcase on Alternative Assessment

Sources: CET, USC Faculty | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: Humanities

Ungrading: small changes, big impact

Lori Mesrobian from Dornsife Latin American and Iberian Cultures discusses “ungrading” assignments in language classes at the August 2022 Faculty Showcase on Alternative Assessments

Sources: CET, USC Faculty | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: Arts, Clinical, Humanities, Social Science, STEM

Design and implementation of a clinical reasoning competency assignment for doctoral physical therapy students

Elise Ruckert and Didi Matthews from the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy discuss design, implementation and revision of a clinical reasoning competency assignment for doctoral physical therapy students at the August 2022 Faculty Showcase

Sources: CET, USC Faculty | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: Clinical

Implementing a mastery-based grading system in a mathematics class

Felicia Yeung Tabing from Dornsife Mathematics discusses design, implementation and revision of mastery-based assessment in a mathematics class at the August 2022 Faculty Showcase on Alternative Assessments

Sources: CET, USC Faculty | Formats: Video | Audience: Faculty, Staff, TAs | Disciplines: Arts, Clinical, Humanities, Social Science, STEM