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An Overview Of Assessment: Demonstrating Effective Teaching And Learning, Dana Dunn, Suzanne Baker, Chandra Mehrotra, R. Landrum, Maureen Mccarthy
An Overview Of Assessment: Demonstrating Effective Teaching And Learning, Dana Dunn, Suzanne Baker, Chandra Mehrotra, R. Landrum, Maureen Mccarthy
R. Eric Landrum
Assessment—the effective measurement of teaching influences on student learning—is now a fact of life on most college and university campuses. Faculty members as well as administrators are being compelled to demonstrate that the educational experiences offered on their campuses (and increasingly in online course offerings) are meeting publicly expressed standards and learning goals. Students and their families, and perhaps their future employers, also want a sense that an institution's touted values routinely translate into acquired and verifiable knowledge and demonstrable skills.
Assessment And The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning, Regan Gurung, R. Landrum
Assessment And The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning, Regan Gurung, R. Landrum
R. Eric Landrum
Assessment is at the core of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). In fact, the debate on what exactly constitutes SoTL (e.g., McKinney, 2007; Pan, 2009) often hinges on whether or not student learning is assessed together with whether the results are published or not. Is my teaching effective? Are my students learning? How do I know? Ask these questions of a department, program, college or university, and it is clear you are talking about assessment, a "global term used to refer to the authentic evaluation of teaching and learning outcomes" (Dunn, McCarthy, Baker, Halonen, & Boyer, 2011, p.145). …
Writing In Apa Style: Faculty Perspectives Of Competence And Importance, R. Landrum
Writing In Apa Style: Faculty Perspectives Of Competence And Importance, R. Landrum
R. Eric Landrum
A US sample (N = 360) of psychology educators assessed 73 writing skills and competencies with regard to (a) the importance of each and (b) the typical performance of the top half of local psychology majors. An analysis of gap scores yielded results showing that specific skills, such as supporting claims with citations and proofreading ability, are areas in need of greater emphasis and renewed pedagogical attention by instructors. Educators may use the results of this study to help to identify areas of increased need for writing instruction regarding undergraduate psychology education.
Is Latency To Test Deadline A Predictor Of Student Test Performance?, R. Landrum, Regan Gurung
Is Latency To Test Deadline A Predictor Of Student Test Performance?, R. Landrum, Regan Gurung
R. Eric Landrum
When students are given a period or window of time to take an exam, is taking an exam earlier in the window (high latency to deadline) related to test scores? In Study 1, students (n = 236) were given windows of time to take online each of 13 quizzes and 4 exams. In Study 2, students (n = 251) similarly took 4 exams online within a test window. In both studies, latency to deadline was significantly correlated to exam score. Higher scoring students took the exam earlier in the test window. We explore possible explanations of these relationships and map …
Bottleneck Concepts In Psychology: Exploratory First Steps, Regan A.R. Gurung, R. Eric Landrum
Bottleneck Concepts In Psychology: Exploratory First Steps, Regan A.R. Gurung, R. Eric Landrum
R. Eric Landrum
The authors take an initial step in identifying potential bottleneck concepts in psychology, that is, concepts that are deceptively difficult, perhaps due to student overconfidence. In order to first identify bottleneck concepts, faculty (n = 65) rated the difficulty of 91 psychological concepts from across the discipline. Students (n = 35) rated both the difficulty of terms and their confidence in their own knowledge of 107 terms typically found in introductory psychology research methods and learning chapters. Additional research into psychology's bottleneck concepts may help instructors to focus more on the content that students struggle with, especially the …