I'm Teaching but is it Working? Basics of Assessing Instructional Design and Redesign

Assessing the effectiveness of teaching practices and course/instructional design should be an ongoing effort that leads to positive changes to a course. Whether it be creating a new course from scratch, improving a "stale" offering, work surrounding the new GE, or any other opportunity to think about instructional practice, planning for assessment of instruction can be any combination of daunting, exciting and confusing. As we plan, we think about our learning outcomes, activities, assignments, and exams. What we often don’t consider is how we will eventually know what worked and what didn’t. This workshop will suggest ways to generate data and student feedback to answer that question.

After this workshop participants will be able to: 

• Identify multiple forms of assessment of student learning to understand the impact and effectiveness of instructional practices.
• Develop a plan for building assessments into a course. 

You may register here.

If you have registered for this event, or are on the waitlist and require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate, please contact drakeinstitute@osu.edu. Requests should be made at least two weeks prior to the event, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

All members of the university community are welcome in Drake Institute activities, programs, services, and employment —regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, HIV/AIDS status, military status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other bases under the law.

Institute for Teaching and Learning programming is offered in accordance with university guidelines associated with in-person and remote activities. The Institute will inform registrants of delivery modifications should those guidelines change.