[ED-TECH] Lunch & Learn: Collaborative Quizzes and Mastery Tasks

Ed-Tech list members,

Each winner of an Excellence in Teaching award gives a presentation in order to share their practices with other faculty members. In this final presentation from 2005's award winners, Vaidy Jayaraman will share some of the techniques he has used to change his class from "Will this be on the test?" to active engagement in learning. Come, have lunch, listen, and consider whether his techniques might be useful in your classes.

Apr. 13 - Short Collaborative Quizzes Combined with Bridge Tasks Using the "Mastery Level" Model

2005 Excellence in Teaching Award Winner
Vaidy Jayaraman
School of Business, Management

How do we help students to learn, rather than just focusing on the exam? How can we use assessment to increase learning? How can we have students demonstrate learning? How can we actively engage students in learning?

In this Lunch and Learn session, Vaidy Jayaraman will demonstrate some of the practices that he uses to enhance student learning outcomes in his classes. Rather than using the quizzes as a measure of learning, the quizzes become a learning tool. Rather than using formal testing as the primary assessment method, students produce projects to demonstrate their achievement of learning outcomes. Come and hear how these techniques work and how they have changed his teaching and the students' learning.

Thursday, April 20, 2006
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Whitten University Center
Room 211 (Conference room by the Student Government offices)

Lunch will be served. Registration is required. Register at http://www.snurl.com/vaidyjaraman or go to www.miami.edu/iac > "Lunch and Learn Series."

A recording of the presentation will be placed on the www.miami.edu/iac web site, for those who cannot attend. A link to Vaidy's written description of his practice can be found on the www.snurl.com/excellence web page.

Bill Vilberg

Assoc. Dir. of Instructional Advancement

305-284-3944