The recommended maximum words per line, and lines per slide in PowerPoint.
What is six words per line and six lines per slide?
100
Another name for personal response systems that can be used to immediately poll students about course material.
What are clickers?
100
Common assumptions held by students regarding discussions that may be negative and could hinder their participation.
What are preconceptions?
100
Looking at a single question across all students papers while grading is a strategy to improve this aspect of giving feedback.
What is consistency?
100
A ________________ course is one in which instructors use technology-enhanced, out-of-class activities in addition to traditional, face-to-face methods of instruction.
What is a blended course?
200
A particularly helpful strategy for organizing lectures that can help students make sense of, connect together and remember what teachers then go on to talk about, without getting lost.
What are advanced organizers?
200
The creative fixing of an idea in a form, such as a book, movie or song.
What is Intellectual Property?
200
One of the things you should consider when preparing your physical classroom for face-to-face discussions.
What are the physical arrangements?
200
One of the most important qualities of developing your assessment criteria is that they should reflect the ________ ___________ of the course or assignment.
What are learning outcomes?
200
An approach to learning where students make sense of material, which is perceived as consisting of ideas and concepts which the students must reflect on, compare, manipulate and integrate.
What is deep learning?
300
An approach students might use to record their thinking that arises from the lecture as opposed to simply capturing the content of the lecture.
What is note making?
300
Audio or video content that students can subscribe to, download, and play on the go.
What are podcasts?
300
Grading students on their participation in class discussions may encourage this type of behavior in which students are not genuinely engaged in the discussion, but are contributing just to earn points.
What is game-playing behavior?
300
A kind of template or guide to grading, which highlights the key components of an answer and provides guidance on what different levels of answers look like.
What is a rubric?
300
The following are examples of activities that can be built into into courses to significantly increase student engagement and improve learning:
First-year seminars
Writing-intensive courses
Common intellectual experiences
Learning communities
Service learning
Undergraduate research
What are high impact activities?
400
A classroom assessment technique (CAT) that asks students to scan their lecture notes and summarize the main points of the lecture.
What is the one minute paper?
400
A popular online learning object repository where instructors may be able to locate digital materials to use in their courses.
What is MERLOT?
400
A type of discussion where students take responsibility for selecting and researching a topic, setting the goals for the session, deciding on the format and learning tasks, and facilitating the discussion.
What are student-led seminars?
400
A hierarchical model of learning objectives, which assumes the learner has mastered the lower levels before moving up to the higher levels.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives?
400
The six levels of Bloom's taxonomy are knowledge, comprehension, application, ___________________, synthesis and evaluation.
What is analysis?
500
Advice about what to do next, or differently, rather than only comments about what you did well or badly last time.
What is feedforward?
500
An applied learning resource that can be used to help students know what they don't know.
What is a problem sheet?
500
An effective strategy to engage students in discussions where an instructor simply waits after posing a question for someone to respond.
What is wait time?
500
A method of feedback in which students assess one another.
What is peer feedback?
500
Encouraging students to prepare for class or exams; explain difficult ideas to each other; and evaluate each other's work are examples of which principle of good practice in undergraduate education advanced by Chickering and Gamson (1987)?
What is developing reciprocity and cooperation among students?