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Faculty Evaluation of Learning

Educational Value

15.1 Feedback from students, on a continuous basis, to evaluate whether students are comprehending instruction

Quality Standards

15.1.1 Instructors will receive training in good practices of curriculum design from the Center for Teaching Support.

15.1.2 Instructors will collect information from students about how well they understand the course material.

15.1.3 Instructors will make appropriate revisions of course content or methodology that reflect good practices in curriculum design.

Educational Value

15.2 Providing students opportunities to master ideas

Quality Standards

15.2.1 Instructors will provide either required or optional activities that allow students to expand their breadth of knowledge or their breadth of application of the knowledge of course content.

15.2.2 Instructors will understand how to provide learning transfer from the course content to the workplace and how to evaluate if this transfer has occurred. (See Overview)

Educational Value

15.3 Active and critical reflection on course content by students

Quality Standards

15.3.1 Instructors will provide opportunities for their students to adapt course content to the students’ personal experiences. (See Overview)

15.3.2 Instructors will engage students in such a way as to have them consider issues from multiple perspectives.

15.3.3 Instructors will require their students to think through issues by engaging in and encouraging discourse between instructor-student and student-student.

Educational Value

15.4 The linking of student inquiries to genuine problems or issues of high interest to the students that, in turn, enhance motivation and accelerate student learning

Quality Standards

15.4.1 Instructors will be cognizant of the “generational issues” of their students in the course. Instructors will use these issues in face-to-face (F2F) or online examples or discussions of course content.

Some characteristics of the generations : Charles D. Dziuban and Patsy D. Moskal (University of Central Florida)

  • Matures (born prior to 1946)

  • Dedicated to a job they take on
  • Respectful of authority
  • Place duty before pleasure

  • Baby boomers (born between 1946-1964)

  • Live to work
  • Generally optimistic
  • Influence on policy & products
  • Generation X (born between 1965-1980)

  • Work to live
  • Clear & consistent expectations
  • Value contributing to the whole
  • Millennials (born between 1981-1994)

  • Live in the moment
  • Expect immediacy of technology
  • Earn money for immediate consumption

15.4.2 Instructors will assess whether examples used in the course are of high enough interest to increase students’ motivation to learn.

 

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