Dec

22

Baruch at its best – on YouTube!

December 22, 2008 | by Sarah Ryan | 1 Comment

It’s December 22nd and you’re up to your ears in grading (right?) The good, the bad, the 4-and-a-half paragraph essay revealing a student’s ability to resell her textbook in “perfect” condition on Amazon… It’s that time of year again. But this year has a new twist…
Kyra Gaunt and her Anthro 1001 class created a video [...]

Dec

18

The Retrospective Essay as a Course Evaluation Tool

December 18, 2008 | by sotoole | 4 Comments

In addition to the official end-of-semester course evaluation, I like to ask my students to write a self-reflective “retrospective essay” about what they have learned and how they have experienced the course. For example, here’s the prompt I use for English 2100 (Writing I):

“Please take some time to write in response to the following [...]

Dec

12

Pondering Teaching Evaluations

December 12, 2008 | by Glenn Petersen | 21 Comments

Elisabeth Gareis recently raised a question regarding student evaluations of our courses, which prompted me to write this. But her post doesn’t have “evaluations” in its title, and so I’m making a new post of this, rather than simply commenting on Elisabeth’s, in order to draw attention to the matter of evaluations.
I take [...]

Dec

7

A for Content . . . F for Form

December 7, 2008 | by Elisabeth Gareis | 3 Comments

It’s term paper time. Actually, it was time last week for term paper drafts in two of my classes. Unfortunately, six students had draft grades below 50 (three below 40). The thing is: Their papers were actually quite good with respect to content. The students had clearly conducted their research and presented interesting information and [...]