Meaningful Course Revision: Enhancing Academic Engagement Using Student Learning Data
Catherine M. Wehlburg
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paperback. Faculty are often motivated to change the activities and design of their courses for reasons not based on data. In Meaningful Course Revision, the author seeks instead to illustrate how the appropriate use of multiple, direct measures of student-learning outcomes can lead to enhanced course development and revision. Series: JB-Anker. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 278.
Faculty are often motivated to change the activities and design of their courses for reasons not based on data. In Meaningful Course Revision, the author seeks instead to illustrate how the appropriate use of multiple, direct measures of student-learning outcomes can lead to enhanced course development and revision. While providing an outline of methods for creating significant learning experiences, the book also includes practical suggestions for shaping the design of a course to meet student needs.
Faculty are often motivated to change the activities and design of their courses for reasons not based on data. In Meaningful Course Revision, the author seeks instead to illustrate how the appropriate use of multiple, direct measures of student-learning outcomes can lead to enhanced course development and revision. While providing an outline of methods for creating significant learning experiences, the book also includes practical suggestions for shaping the design of a course to meet student needs.
Meaningful Course Revision urges a rethinking of teaching and learning. By making student advancement its focal point, it offers guidance through
- Data-based decision ... Read more
- Designing course-based assessment activities
- Using data to enhance innovation in course redesign
- Rethinking teaching and learning
- Embedding assessment activities in meaningful ways
- Planning the course
- Closing the feedback loop
- Moving from course-level decision making to departmental curriculum planning
- Creating a culture of student-learning outcomes assessment
Written for faculty seeking advice on how to keep their teaching interesting and effective, Meaningful Course Revision is a practical guide for collecting information about how well students are reaching course goals, learning what impact course changes are having on student learning, and putting courses into a cycle of continual revision and improvement.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Series
JB-Anker
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781119111252
SKU
V9781119111252
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About Catherine M. Wehlburg
Catherine Wehlburg is currently the executive director of the Office for Assessment and Quality Enhancement at Texas Christian University. Prior to this, she worked as the director of the William H. Koehler Center for teaching Excellence, also at Texas Christian University. She earned a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Florida in 1992 and took a faculty position at ... Read more
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