PULLMAN, Wash. – The National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment has selected the WSU’s Office of Assessment of Teaching and Learning website to be featured this month as a model for communication practices and resource accessibility.
By C. Brandon Chapman, College of Education PULLMAN, Wash. – College of Education dean Mike Trevisan will speak to the United Nations in New York as part of a workshop today through Saturday related to the U.N.’s new sustainable development goals.
By Dustin VandeHoef, College of Education intern PULLMAN, Wash. – The characteristics of effective feedback and how it can be used to empower students will be presented by educational consultant Susan Brookhart at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26, in Goertzen 21, at Washington State University.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Before we close the book on 2015 and dive headlong into the spring semester, we’d like to take a few moments to reflect on a momentous fall.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Evaluating the effectiveness of student success programs at Washington State University is a priority for the Office of the Provost and the Office of Assessment of Teaching and Learning.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Graduate student Katie Bittinger assisted with a recently completed needs assessment that shows Whitman County residents lack affordable dental care and access to preventive medical care.
From the Huffington Post SPOKANE, Wash. – The state’s community supervision of those on parole, called Swift and Certain, recently was evaluated by Washington State University criminal justice researchers. They found the program is improving criminal justice.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Faculty involved with undergraduate programs working to improve assessment of student learning can apply through Sept. 10 for mini-grants from the Office of Assessment of Teaching and Learning.
By Trevor Havard, College of Education intern PULLMAN, Wash. – To help ease the frustration of Oregon teachers with classroom assessment requirements, Washington State University’s Chad Gotch teamed up with the Oregon Department of Education to speak with teachers and administrators about using assessments to document student growth.
By Richard H. Miller, Global Campus PULLMAN, Wash. – PowerPoint presentations divide information into bullet points. “Concept maps” use the opposite approach: They require students to connect information – and that takes them to what assistant professor Olusola Adesope calls “a higher level of cognitive process.”