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Event: Web-Based: Transparency in Assignment Design: Communicating Clear Expectations for Student Success
Starts: Monday 11/12/2018 10:00 AM
Ends: Monday 11/12/2018 11:30 AM
Location: Web-based
Presenters: Dr. Adam Smith - Center for Teaching Excellence
Hosted By: Center for Teaching Excellence
Contact Information: cte@tamu.edu
Description: Web-based: A link to the web-based workshop will be provided a few days before the event to registered faculty. When it comes to helping students feel a sense of belonging in the classroom, we may think about how to create a more classroom climate. Yet, what if there’s also something we can within the context of our classroom materials that can both help students feel welcome and make them more likely to succeed? Dr. Mary-Ann Winkelmes asked this question in developing what has become known as the Transparency framework for assignment design. Her work suggests that students who encounter transparently designed assignments not only perform better on them but also report feeling more welcome in class and on campus. In this session, we’ll look briefly at the research around transparent assignments, but we’ll also consider how to implement this framework into our own assignments utilizing a template and consider rubrics to evaluate how clear we can be with students in addressing the what,




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Open to: Faculty Grad Students
Registration Starts: Tuesday 9/4/2018 1:00 AM
Registration Ends: Monday 11/12/2018 11:00 AM
Seats Available: 18 of 30
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