Updated 5/11/2023
“Innovations in Assessment, Feedback, and Grading“
COF’s annual Teaching & Learning Conference is one of the pillar collaborative projects that the five Colleges of the Fenway embarked on together over 20 years ago, now led by the COF Teaching & Learning Committee. The purpose of the COF Teaching & Learning Committee is to collaborate on and advance best practices in teaching, learning, and academic technology in support of student learning outcomes while serving as a community of practice for colleagues across the consortium. The Committee also works to identify efficiencies and economies of scale as part of professional development, joint contracts, and shared services. The committee includes representatives from each of the colleges.
This year’s Teaching & Learning Conference builds on Dr. Joshua Eyler’s Keynote delivered to the COF community at Simmons University in October 2022, by focusing on “Innovations in Assessment, Feedback and Grading” by highlighting achievements, strategies, and techniques from our own COF faculty and staff concerning assessment, feedback, and grading.
Our 2023 Spring conference consisted of 7 presentations from faculty throughout the COF. Presenters shared their strategies and techniques in assessment through teaching demos, mini workshops and virtual discussion groups.
We would like to thank the following presenters for sharing their work with the COF community.
Brendan Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Emmanuel College “Connect your (math) classroom to the world” – Teaching demo on connecting classroom activities to the real world.
Rebecca Macy, Instructor of Psychology and Sciences, Mass College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences “Individuated learning pathways” – Teaching demo focused on a self-developed assessment approach.
Alicia Tetteh, Adjunct Faculty, School of Social Work, Simmons University “Comparing and contrast of teaching methods of synchronous, asynchronous and face to face learning” – Experiential exercise workshop.
Megan Hamilton Giebert, Associate Director of Learning Design Solutions, Teaching & Learning Collaborative, Wentworth Institute of Technology Discussion on instructor readiness to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the classroom.
Josh Luckens, Instructional Designer, Teaching & Learning Collaborative, Wentworth Institute of Technology “Practical Approaches to Ungrading” – Dialogue around ways to uplift intrinsic motivation.
Tim Hanway, Assistant Professor of Practice, Biology, Simmons University “From Overwhelmed to Efficient” –Workshop guiding audience members through a customized grading workflow.
* Due to technical issues with our local recording, we were not able to include Tim’s in-person presentation with original conference video. Tim was gracious enough to re-record his work which can be viewed here
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