Tag: rubric

  • Intentional AI Spotlight: Jonathan Kalodimos on assessing learning when students can’t hide behind the text

    By Demian Hommel, CTL AI in Teaching and Learning Fellow in partnership with the AI Literacy Center As part of the Intentional AI at OSU series, I sat down with Jonathan Kalodimos, an associate professor of finance and Harley & Brigitte Smith Fellow. Jon’s background includes a tenure as a financial economist at the U.S.…

  • Equitable Group Participation

    Dear Colleagues, Even though it is the end of the quarter and your hearts and minds are on the closure of winter quarter, I thought I would post a support for your spring quarter courses.  We are often asked how to assess group work. Creating equitable work groups is an issue, as you know, of…

  • Institutional Proficiency Levels?

    Dear Colleagues, Vicki Tolar Burton and I recently received an interesting question from a new OSU teacher: What [are the] general expectations at OSU for undergraduate writing competencies, and what resources are there for a student whose skills are less than adequate? CTL Response: Your question is appropriate and pertinent.  At this point, no institutional…

  • Education Dis-ease

    I have been an educator for over thirty years: from elementary school to a tier-one research institution. I have noticed over the years, a general trend that I find curious…at the very least. Education, like any other discipline, has it’s own vocabulary…words like “objective,” “rubric,” yes, even “assessment” and “evaluation” have specific and clear meanings…