Use Case: Assessment

  • Engaging Students with Amplify

    Amplify Classroom provides students with opportunities to see mathematics in new ways and truly interact with it. Jill Vettrus would have a difficult time teaching without it.

  • Celebrating Student Progress and Providing Wise Feedback

    Many mathematics faculty understand the value of real-life applications, writing, and projects in the mathematics classroom. Fewer implement these practices, often due to workload and time constraints, but digitally-enabled tools can be used to support efficiency.

  • Emphasizing the Importance of a Course Syllabus and Supporting Students to Understand It

    Faculty work hard to make a course syllabus clear, inviting, and informative. Dr. April Crenshaw has developed a video and quiz system which helps her get students to actually read this important document at the start of the term.

  • Using Daily Warm-up Questions to Activate Prior Knowledge

    Reviewing a previous class day’s notes through a warm-up question allows an instructor to simultaneously re-emphasize important material and activate students’ prior knowledge. This can deepen understanding and enhance connections with new material.

  • Assignment Rubrics Ensure Instructional Transparency

    A digital assignment rubric allows all students to fair and equal access to the standards their grade on an assignment will be assessed by.

  • Using Practice Exams to Increase Proficiency and Reduce Anxiety

    Online practice exams create transparency around exam format and identify areas where students should practice more before the actual exam.

  • Using LMS Platforms and Discipline-Specific Digital Tools that Have Peer Assessment Features

    Maria Tackett, a professor of statistical science, employs peer assessment as a part of her overall statistics course structure the utilizes a self-created website and a GitHub repository. As a part of students’ main team project, they review other team’s projects and leave feedback directly within GitHub. Dr. Tackett uses GitHub and RStudio so that…

  • Using Online Quiz Tools to Assess Prior Knowledge

    Professor Kimberly Jackson uses Chem Quiz to assess how students are progressing and determine any gaps in instruction that she can address. Professors address specific learning needs, adjust pace, and provide supportive pathways when necessary. This knowledge informs the course content, helping professors address specific learning needs and and provide supportive pathways when necessary.

  • Using Quiz Tools to Offer Frequent Opportunities for Practice

    Professor Kimberly Jackson uses Canvas combined with Aktiv Chemistry to provide daily and pre-class quizzes for her students. Depending on the course, students can earn tokens by taking daily quizzes, which can be used to retake “Mastery Quizzes,” or can earn participation tickets. 

  • Question Embedded Videos with Low- to No-Stakes Assessment

    Professor Binyomin Abrams started the Abrams Research Group, which provides question-embedded videos for K-12 and college-level science education. Questions on foundational concepts are embedded at key points throughout Abrams Research Group videos for students to informally assess their understanding of the material.