Assessing Student Participation √ §

Getting students to participate actively in your class discussions and other activities can increase their engagement in the course and possibly enhance their learning as well. But to get students to participate, you’ve got to “make it count” by putting points on it, don’t you? (Or do you?) How do you evaluate the quality of individual students’ participation and assign it a value within your broader grading scheme? What if you’re teaching a large class, or what if participation is happening in small group interactions - how do you assess it?

For Bring Your Best Idea sessions, we (locally) crowdsource answers to questions such as these. Please bring your best idea for assessing student participation to this lively, collaborative, and fast-paced sharing session. Each participant who has an idea to share will have two minutes to describe it. No slides please, though a one-page handout to pass around is welcome. After 20-30 minutes of sharing ideas, we’ll shift to Q&A and discussion. Whether or not you bring an idea to share, you’ll leave this session with new food for thought and several new ideas you might try in your own course. Lunch is provided.

√ Program counts toward the ALIT certificate
§ Program counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate