University Teaching Roundtable: Choose Your Own Adventure: My Experience with Offering Students a Menu of Assignment/Activity Options in a Lecture Course
University Teaching Roundtable (UTR):
Choose Your Own Adventure: My Experience with Offering Students a Menu of Assignment/Activity Options in a Lecture Course
WHEN: Tuesday, April 17, 2018
12:00PM - 1:30PM
WHERE: Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching
627 Dartmouth Place
Evanston
In this University Teaching Roundtable, Jeremy Birnholtz, will share his experience with the participants. Students in a lecture course come with a variety of goals, interests and learning styles, but we often require them all to complete the same assignments. Does that really make sense, though? In this session, I'll describe my experiences with introducing a 'menu' style of assessment in my 100-student lecture course. Under this system, students choose 6 or 7 assignments/activities from about 10 possibilities, completing at least 2 options in each of the 3 major topic units of the course. I'll talk about what led me to do this, as well as the benefits and drawbacks from the perspective of everybody involved: instructor, TAs and students.
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