Category Assessment
Reflections on an Epic Engagement
Projects in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) are never solo endeavors, and the most successful partnerships are those where both parties are flexible and open to trying different approaches to their teaching and learning practices. Working with Dr.…
Incorporating Generative AI into Writing Assignments
Author: Anton Borst, Senior Learning Designer, Office of the Provost When ChatGPT does the work of writing for students, it derails the process of learning how to write. But what happens when AI is brought into the writing process instead…
Labor-based contract grading and student self-efficacy
Authors: Gita DasBender, Nate Mickelson, and Leah Souffrant Contract grading has a long history in higher education. With roots in humanistic psychology (Combs, 1976), the approach has seen a renaissance in recent years in the field of writing studies as…
Patient-teaching videos: A fun and creative alternative assessment
This year’s sudden switch to a remote teaching environment at NYU led me to re-examine the grading methods used in the Perioperative Nursing course I was assigned to teach for the Summer 2020 semester. Although nursing education relies heavily on…