Teaching and Assessment Resources

• Ed Tech Advisor enables you to match your pedagogical needs to ed tech resources available at Penn State.
• Tools for Teaching and Learning From the Schreyer Institute for Teaching and Learning at Penn State has a nice collection of resources.
• Cooperative Learning: The Cooperative Learning Center provides a ton of great material about Cooperative Learning, including an overview.
• National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science. A nice collection of resources, from articles to actual cases!
• Video Lecture Debate: A summary of a discussion among members of the PSU Learning Design Community about video-based lectures (Annie Taylor, April 2011)
• E3 Electronic Field Trips. A neat site from Ball State University and the Best Buy Children's Foundation. From the Website: "E3 Electronic Field Trips are a dynamic combination of live, interactive broadcasts and online curriculum meeting national teaching standards developed by teachers and content experts. They inspire children to explore new learning concepts and consider expanded career possibilities... (They) feature partnerships with many national institutions that provide students in K-12 classrooms extraordinary learning opportunities they would not otherwise be able to experience."

Study Skills

• Study Smarter, Not Harder

Assessment Resources

• 56 Different Examples of Formative Assessment, a Google Presentation curated by David Wees,
• Tools for Teaching and Learning From the Schreyer Institute for Teaching and Learning at Penn State has a nice collection of resources.
• Blueprinting an assessment How to create exams that are randomized yet test the same concepts and aren't more or less difficult between different students.
• "Improving Multiple-Choice Tests." An IDEA Paper from Kansas State University.
• "Improving Essay Tests." An IDEA Paper from Kansas State University.
• The Mind-Mapping website.

Rubrics

• Rubrics. Advice on building rubrics from the Schreyer Institute for Teaching and Learning.
• "The Advantage of Rubrics." Nice article that explains what rubrics are.
• RubriStar is a web site geared toward K-12, but still valuable.It features a nice pull-down menu type interface based on the kind of Rubric you are wanting to make. Supported by the US Department of Education.
• Rubric for blog posts. From Penn State Professor Chris Long, used for assignments that require students to make blog posts and to comment on other's posts.
• Example of an e-Portfolio Rubric from METEO 241. 
• Penn State's Rubrics for using VoiceThread.

Student Peer Review

• Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) is "an Internet based instructional tool that was developed at UCLA with support from the National Science Foundation. It helps students learn by writing, and it enables instructors to give frequent writing assignments without increasing the grading load. Originally developed to facilitate writing assignments in large chemistry classes at UCLA, Calibrated Peer Review is currently being used by over 200 institutions in areas ranging from English to Engineering."
• Sample Peer Evaluation Form from Penn State World Campus.

Portfolios

e-Portfolios at Penn State is a centrally maintained web service for all e-portfolio developers at Penn State. Here students will find:

• Information and advice regarding the collection, selection and reflection of their evidence,
• Basic skills necessary to design and create webpages,
• Penn State resources to help them with all aspects of developing their e-portfolio.