Instructor: Vikram PagpatanCourse/Department: School of Health Professions- Occupational Therapy Program (MS)Institution: SUNY DownstateSubject: Pre-clinical Description A. Vikram has utilized the Health Sciences Reasoning Test (HSRT)- A Critical Thinking Skills Assessment as a means of diversifying the incoming applicant populations for admissions standards as well as using the assessment as a …
Instructor: Janet Ochs & Christopher BadurekCourse/Department: Cortland/Computer Applications Program & GeographyInstitution: SUNY CortlandSubject: Computer Science & Geography Description Cortland STEM Professors Engage Students in Drone Startup Pitch Contest Over the 2020 fall semester, Chris Badurek, Associate Professor Geography, and Janet Ochs, Coordinator of the Computer Applications Program (CAP), worked together …
Instructor: Michael KramerCourse/Department: HistoryInstitution: SUNY BrockportSubject: History Description “Developing assignments in history courses that have students use annotation on VoiceThread asynchronous slide lectures that then feed into their writing assignments. It’s a way to help them work on their close, critical reading skills and to create holistic, sequenced, stepped pedagogy …
Instructor: Alireza Ebrahimi & Lorenz NeuwirthCourse/Department: BusinessInstitution: Old WestburySubject: Business Description Integrating Contemporary Topics into Teaching and Learning: A Case of Teaching a Technology Course and COVID-19 Integrating the curriculum with a contemporary topic connects the learning to real-life and makes the course relevant, novel, and innovative. The integration creates …
Instructor: Theresa Zahor, Librarian, MLS, MA Course/Department: Greenley LibraryInstitution: SUNY Farmingdale State CollegeSubject: Library Sciences Description We use this rubric in our Information Literacy Assessment of EGL 101 Composition classes. The assignment is a Research paper. We are assessing student learning based on the 5 criteria in the attached rubric …
Instructor: Katelyn Burton PragerCourse/Department: EnglishInstitution: Fashion Institute of TechnologySubject: Composition Description A portfolio-based writing course exemplifies many of the goals of social justice assessment in shifting the focus of the course from product to process. When I teach first-year writing, I like to use writing portfolios throughout the semester, as …
Instructor: Katelyn Burton PragerCourse/Department: EnglishInstitution: Fashion Institute of TechnologySubject: Composition Description In my upper level writing courses, I often incorporate one major project that allows students to create their own rubrics. Either as a collaborative class-wide document or as an individual, project-specific artifact, this process encourages students to think more …
Instructor: Dr. Christine J. HoppleCourse/Department: EnglishInstitution: Brockport/Dept. of Kinesiology, Sport Studies, and Physical EducationSubject: Dept. of Kinesiology, Sport Studies, and Physical Education Description “PEP 444: online portion, during both f2f and when we were remote *Students in this class have a 30 hour field experience in an elementary school (has …
Instructor: Danica Savonick – Assistant Professor of English Course/Department: EnglishInstitution: SUNY CortlandSubject: English Description This semester, instead of Blackboard, our course will use a customized site built using the WordPress.org content management system. WordPress.org is the free, open-source software upon which 34% of the world’s websites are built. This means …
Instructor: Kati Ahern – Director of Writing Programs Course/Department: English Institution: SUNY Cortland Subject: Professional Writing or Composition courses Description Labor-Based (or “work-based”) Contract Grading is a system of grading based off the research of Asao Inoue (2015; 2018). It differs from traditional grading in that you do not receive …
