Academic Integrity

What is it?
Why is it important?
What might lead students to deliberately undermine their academic integrity?
What can lead students to unintentionally undermine their academic integrity?
How can you tell when a student has cheated?
What if you're not sure?
How will you handle it when a student cheats?
What can you do to prevent cheating?
Write a paragraph describing what plagiarism means in the context of the course you are designing.
Share with a partner and discuss
- What works well in this description?
- How can it be improved?
- How should this information be shared with students?

Quizzes, Tests, and Exams

Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Learning and Assessing with Multiple Choice Questions

Write an exam right now! Focus on material related to the course you are designing.

5 multiple choice questions (use the guidelines provided in Davis pp. 393-397)
2 True/False Questions
2 short answer questions (1 paragraph answer) (use the guidelines provided in Davis pp. 401-404)
1 essay question (multiple paragraph answer, often 5)

Discuss and critique the items

What aspect of the multiple choice or true/false questions could be misleading to students?
How can the questions be improved?
What are the guidelines that you would use to assess your own questions?

Delivery

What method will you use to deliver the test?
What are the alternatives and how can you choose?
What are the pros and cons of various formats? (take home, open book, in class, multiple classes, etc.)

Grading

Reflection

How can you assess the effectiveness of an assignment?
What will you do if you decide an assignment was ineffective?
Working with your multiple choice questions, design an alternative assignment that assesses the same information in a non-test format.