In my last post about the inverted/flipped calculus class, I stressed the importance of Guided Practice as a way of structuring students’ pre-class activities and as a means of teaching self-regulated ...

Assessment of course quality, student learning, and professor effectiveness has become paramount in many of today’s universities and colleges. We seem always to strive for a better way to assess our ...

It is easy to view the task of drafting learning objectives as a mere administrative hurdle—one more box to check for a syllabus or a department review. However, when we move beyond the "paperwork" ...

Every graduate program sets Graduate Learning Objectives for students in the program. These goals are arrived at through an interactive process involving the Graduate Program Committee, the sponsoring ...

What is Bloom’s Taxonomy? In 1956, Benjamin Bloom led a group of educational psychologists in defining the levels of intellectual behavior important to the learning process. They created a pyramid ...

This page serves as a resource for faculty teaching in the Core or developing a new course for the Core. Below, faculty can find the current learning objectives for each Core area. Critical Thinking ...

One of the common misconceptions about inclusive teaching practices is that it excludes the use of tests, which for many instructors and subjects offer an efficient and clear measure of student ...

Rick: A lot of parents and educators may be familiar with the phrase “mastery learning” but not have a clear idea what it means in practice. What is it exactly? Scott: My journey began in 2012 when I ...

The UAB PA program faculty have established performance indicators, learning outcomes, and goals for the program. The faculty regularly monitors and evaluates progress towards meeting its stated ...