News & announcements from October 2011
Assessment: National Resources
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011Consultant Barbara Walvoord presented ideas for curriculum mapping at GCC. [More to come] The American Association for Colleges and University [AACU] has developed many resources, under LEAP, for promoting assessment at the institutional, departmental/program and individual course level. LEAP [Liberal Education and America's Promise] developed essential learning outcomes and hosts updates, sample grading rubrics, how…
Conference: Assessing Student Learning Outcomes
Friday, October 21st, 2011Assessing Student Learning Outcomes Within and Across the Disciplines November 17, 2011 at Greenfield Community College. A vision project conference for community college faculty/staff. For Registration, enter site.
Trauma and Learning: Call for proposals
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011Call for proposals for a conference on Trauma and Learning hosted at MassBay Community College in April 27th . Due 1/12/12
Grading rubrics and assessment
Friday, October 7th, 2011As midterm approaches, preparing for fair ways to assess students is always paramount. See some tools to make grading at midterm more efficient. You may want to consider grading rubrics and grading contracts for the future. See Sample contract PSY 101 [open in a new window] As more students with autism enter college classrooms, faculty may need more…
NEDFC Fall 11 Conference
Monday, October 3rd, 2011Regional Conference The College of Worcester Consortium and The New England Faculty Development Consortium 2011 Fall Conference. Contact Judi Greene- Corvee for support for funding. “Designing and Documenting for Student Success”Save the Date Registration Opens Soon November 18, 2011College of the Holy Cross Worcester, Massachusetts
