Who Are You?
100% of past participants felt this specific inventory helped them identify how their personal identity influences their instructional approaches.
What is the Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI)?
In "Backward Design," you should identify these specific, measurable statements of what students will do before you plan your activities.
What are Learning Outcomes (or SLOs)?
This is the primary textbook used in PREP for evidence-based instructional strategies in science and engineering.
What is Teaching and Learning STEM?
This type of memory has very limited capacity and is the "bottleneck" that Cognitive Load Theory seeks to protect.
What is Working Memory?
These low-stakes checks for understanding, like the "Minute Paper," happen during the learning process.
What are Formative Assessments?
This TPI perspective, often high among PREP participants, focuses on helping students develop increasingly complex ways of reasoning.
What is the Developmental perspective?
This pyramid-shaped model helps instructors choose action verbs that match the desired level of cognitive complexity.
What is Bloom’s Taxonomy?
Felder and Brent argue that student attention begins to decline significantly after this many minutes of passive lecturing.
What is 10 to 15 minutes?
This "effect" occurs when learners must split their attention between two related sources of info, like a diagram and its legend.
What is the Split-Attention Effect?
Self-Determination Theory (SDT) posits that students are most motivated when they feel a sense of Relatedness, Competence, and this.
What is Autonomy?
PREP instructors recommend distilling your entire teaching philosophy into this specific, concise format to share with colleagues.
What is a One-Sentence Summary (or Elevator Pitch)?
According to the "ABCCS" of well-written SLOs, the "B" stands for this.
What is Behavior (the action verb)?
This active learning strategy involves a brief individual reflection, a partner discussion, and a whole-class share.
What is Think-Pair-Share?
This refers to the inherent difficulty of the subject matter, which can only be managed by "segmenting" or "sequencing."
What is Intrinsic Load?
This specific "wrapper" activity asks students to reflect on their exam performance and study habits after getting a grade back.
What is an Exam Wrapper?
This TPI perspective is characterized by a high degree of content expertise and a focus on clear, organized delivery of information.
What is the Transmission perspective?
This step of course design involves ensuring that your assessments actually measure the skills defined in your learning objectives.
What is Alignment?
To prevent student resistance to active learning, instructors should always provide this "Why" behind the activity.
What is the Rationale?
This instructional strategy allows students to control the pacing and navigation of the material to avoid overload.
What is Learner Control?
To promote a sense of "Relatedness," instructors should prioritize this type of connection during the first few weeks of class.
What is Building Relationships (or community)?
When drafting a philosophy statement, you should avoid "empty statements" and instead provide these to show how you realize your values.
What are Concrete Examples (or evidence)?
This Purdue-specific program aims to transform foundational courses into student-centered, autonomy-supportive environments.
What is IMPACT?
This term refers to the "just-in-time" support provided to students as they work through a difficult task.
What is Scaffolding?
Presenting information through both a visual and an auditory channel (rather than just text) utilizes this effect.
What is the Modality Effect?
This "color-coded" system is recommended for syllabi to clearly define allowed and prohibited uses of AI.
What is the Red-Yellow-Green Light Policy?