Faculty Development
Faculty Development
Faculty Development
Faculty Development
Faculty Development
Faculty Development

 

Courses & Resources

Assessment as a Tool for Learning

Valencia educators will develop student growth through consistent, timely formative and summative measures, and promote students’ abilities to self-assess. Assessment practices will invite student feedback on the teaching and learning process as well as on student achievement.  

Resources and Courses

  • Resources for Assessment include professional literature, practical examples, and applications in diverse disciplines.
  • Faculty development Courses are designed to expand your expertise in Assessment.  All courses related to Assessment begin with the prefix, ASMT. 
  • To search for the following ASMT course offerings click here. Please note:  Not all courses are offered every year.

 

Overview of Assessment- Narrated Presentation

Courses

ASMT 2121 Assessment as a Tool for Learning


LCTS 1110 Teaching in Our Learning College

 

Resources

Courses

ASMT 2228 Authentic Assessment


ASMT 3353 Authentic Learning and Online Assessment

 

Resources

Courses

ASMT 2122 Classroom Assessment Techniques

 

Resources

Courses

ASMT 2122 Classroom Assessment Techniques


ASMT 3222 Strengthening Teaching and Learning through the Results of Your Student Assessment of Instruction

This course will introduce faculty members to the basics of student assessment of instruction at Valencia College through our online course evaluation system, including ways of increasing student participation.  Advanced topics will also be covered such as the development of customized evaluation questions, the development of formative midterm assessment measures, and strategies for acting on your results in terms of teaching practices and professional portfolio development.

 

 

Resources

Courses

ASMT 2227 Understanding and Designing Rubrics

In this online, interactive course, participants will learn the elements of rubric construction and examine a variety of models to use in creating their own discipline-specific rubrics.

 


ASMT 3220 Implementing Rubrics for Program Assessment

This course has been designed as an interactive working session for faculty implementing rubrics for the review of student work across course sections / courses.  Faculty members participating from the same programs will be invited to use their own student work.  The session will cover sampling, inter-rater reliability, norming of review teams, and the consistent application of criteria to student artifacts and assignments for the assessment of program learning outcomes.

 

Resources

Courses

ASMT 2226 Online Course Summative Assessment


See also Learning-centered Teaching Strategies

 

Faculty Resources for Multiple Choice Question Design:

Multiple Choice Question Development and Design- Facilitated by Steven Downing

On Friday, October 12, 2012 Dr. Steven Downing visited Valencia to facilitate two faculty trainings on Multiple Choice Question Design. Links to resources from these trainings are available below.

Please check out the Faculty Development catalog or contact their office for future workshops on multiple choice questions.

Presentation Power Point


Resources:


Written Tests: Constructed-Response and Selected-Response Formats- Downing
The Effects of Violating Standard Item Writing Principles on Tests and Students- Downing
Revised Taxonomy of Multiple Choice Item Writing Guidelines- Downing
A Review of Multiple-Choice Item-Writing Guidelines Classroom Assessment- Haladyna, et al.
Constructing Written Test Questions- Case and Swanson

About Steven Downing Steven's Biography Steven's CV

 

Want to learn more about resources
to support faculty use of scanners, scantron forms,
and other support to individually create and score multiple
choice question exams in your classes?

Please contact your campus representative to find out more.
East Campus: Alison Langevin
Osceloa Campus: Nancy Scoltock
West Campus: Charles Fox

 

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Important Program Assessment Planning Dates for Fall and Spring

 

Resources

Courses

ASMT 3232 Quality Matters: Peer Reviewer Training


ASMT 3234 Quality Matters: Refresher Training

 

 

One-to-One Consultations

  • Meet with a member of our Faculty Development Team on your campus- Coming Soon!
  • Partner with a colleague to observe different teaching techniques and reflect on your own practice. Click here to learn more.

 

 

 
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