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Assessments with Rubrics
By: Peter Van Leusen
August 13, 2013
Assessing students’ work is a common activity in the life of any instructor, and depending on the number of students and type of assignment, can be a long and tedious process. Even after sharing grades and posting feedback, students are often interes ...
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Setting the Stage for Meaningful Peer-to-Peer Feedback
By: Peter Van Leusen
April 30, 2025
Although many instructors integrate group-based or team-based learning activities into their teaching (see TeachOnline post on The Value of Group Work), getting students to actually provide meaningful peer-to-peer feedback can be challenging. Too oft ...
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9 Proven Ways for Instructors to Address Online Student Retention
By: Peter Van Leusen
August 18, 2018
With accessibility to online education increasing, the retention of online students has become a concern of academic leaders in higher education (Allen & Seaman, 2015). As a result, many universities have launched initiatives to improve course co ...
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Are my students really getting it? CATs will show you the way.
By: Peter Van Leusen
April 30, 2025
In a previous post (see Gauging Student Understanding: CATs are puuuuur-fect), we introduced instructors to the idea of using Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) by Angelo and Cross (1983) to check whether students understand a certain concept. To ...
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Gauging Student Understanding: CATs are puuuuur-fect
By: Peter Van Leusen
April 30, 2025
Do you find yourself wondering whether your online students are really learning? Whether they are really getting it? During face-to-face classes, an instructor often can use visual cues, such as a puzzled look or a nodding head from a student, to gau ...
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It’s the Middle of the Semester… So, What Do My Students Really Think?
By: Peter Van Leusen
October 21, 2013
“Wait, are we already that far into the semester? There is so much left to do in so little time!”If this is a constant thought on your mind, or an all-familiar expression in recent conversations with other faculty and instructors, we might be ne ...
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The ASU Instructional Designer: Building Effective Relationships
By: Peter Van Leusen
April 30, 2025
This post further breaks down some of the activities of Instructional Designers mentioned in the previous TeachOnline post, Introducing the ASU Instructional Designer, and discusses the importance of the relationship between the faculty and instructi ...
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5 Things Successful Instructors Do When the Semester is Over
By: Peter Van Leusen
April 30, 2025
With finals week coming to an end and grading about to be completed, it is only natural to make a mad dash for the door and enjoy a well-deserved break. There is no question that we all need a break to relax and find inspiration, but befo ...
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The CATs in a Hat: Fostering Higher Order Thinking
By: Peter Van Leusen
April 30, 2025
This is the third article in our series on Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) which can be used to gauge lesson effectiveness and student comprehension. To review, CATs were developed by Angelo and Cross (1983) to efficiently check whether studen ...
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