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Assessment
Links to Websites that Discuss Principles Underpinning Effective Student Assessment
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ENC Online: Assessment
This site provides information on a range of topics like Framing the Context, Aligning Assessment with Learning, Alternative Assessment, Classroom Assessment, Standardized Testing etc.
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The Art of Assessing
Phil Race (a prolific author on the subject of assessment) makes a case for broadening the range of assessment processes in higher education.
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Policies & Guidelines on Assessment
Guidelines on Student Assessment : Advice to Examiners from the University of Queensland, Australia.
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Student Assessment in Higher Education 
Author(s): Tim Roberts and Joanne McInnerney, Central Queensland University, Australia.
This website discusses aspects related to assessment of student learning; online and offline articles, journals, and books; online discussion lists, assessment-related organizations and conferences, and glossaries of assessment terminology; software to facilitate assessment activities; resources specifically related to multiple-choice tests and quizzes; and other assessment-related websites.
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Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation(PARE)
Links to a wide category of Internet resources for assessment and evaluations found here.
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DeLiberations: Assessment
Gives you useful information and good resource materials on Assessment.
Links to Websites that Give Information on Different Methods of Assesment
Open book exams
Test Construction
Helping students to be successful with Assessment
Cooperative/Collaborative Learning
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The Cooperative Learning Center
The University of Minnesota. The co-directors of the center, Roger T. Johnson and David W. Johnson, have written widely in this area and this site includes articles, newsletters, and other valuable information.
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DeLiberations: Collaborative Learning
Collaborative learning involves students working together in some way to aid their learning. There are a number of models of collaborative learning and these raise issues and concerns for both the teacher and student as well as for course design and administration. Gives you information will help in clarifying some of the above mentioned issues.
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Cooperative Learning in Technical Courses: Procedures, Pitfalls, and Payoffs
Richard M. Felder,
North Carolina State University & Rebecca Brent,
East Carolina University
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Climate Setting in Cooperative Learning Classrooms
By Susan Ledlow of Arizona State University.
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Collaborative Learning: Group Work and Study Teams, UC Berkeley
From Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis; Jossey-Bass Publishers: San Francisco, 1993.
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Cooperative Learning in Chemistry
Maintained by Harry E. Pence, Professor of Chemistry, SUNY Oneonta, for the use of his students.
Creative Thinking
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EDWARD
DE BONO'S Authorised Website
Contains links to the "CoRT Lessons", "Six Thinking Hats",
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Creative
Thinking Techniques
Creative Thinking Techniques by Robert Harris, Southern
California College. Version Date: July 1, 1998 The goal is to
produce a good quantity and a good quality of new ideas and solutions
so that the best ones may be chosen. Exactly how those ideas are generated
is less important than the ideas themselves. Remember, the goal is
more important than the path.
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Introduction
to Creative Thinking
Introduction to Creative Thinking by Robert Harris, Southern
California College. Version Date: July 1, 1998.
Critical Thinking
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Critical Thinking On The Web
This site by Tim van Gelder, University of Melbourne has links to all the most useful critical thinking resources on the web.
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Critical Thinking What It Is and Why It Counts
Written by Peter A Facione, Dean of College of Arts & Sciences, Santa Clara University is primarily for students and takes a Socratic approach to defining critical thinking and identifying its value in one's personal, professional, educational, and civic life.
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Critical Thinking Resources: An Annotated Bibliography, Montclair State University
The listings are organized into the following categories: Bibliographies and Selection Aids, Professional Books, Methodology Texts, Activities/Manipulatives, Audio/Visuals, and Computer Software/Multimedia.
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Critical Thinking Community at Sonoma State
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Critical Thinking Links, Oswego State, State University of New York
A well compiled list of Critical Thinking articles & resources.
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Teaching Critical Thinking,
Internet Education Topics Hotlink Page compiled by Marcia Sheridan, Professor of Education, Division of Education: School Leadership Program, University of Illinois
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Critical Thinking Skills: General Information
A guide which contains a very well compiled list of links on Critical Thinking
Distance Learning
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International Center for Distance Learning - Literature Database
The ICDL literature database provides you with full details of each reference and an abstract, to help you decide how useful it might be to you.
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Teaching at a Distance: Building a Virtual Learning Environment, Queen's University of Belfast
The report describes the developments associated with delivering the MSc at a distance and will: explore the issues involved in building and supporting effective Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs); explore the key pedagogic and technical elements; highlight how these elements may be applied to courses at other institutions.
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Distance Education at a Glance, Idaho University
To help teachers, administrators, facilitators, and students understand distance education, Barry Willis, the Associate Dean for Outreach and the Engineering Outreach staff present the following series of guides highlighting information detailed in Dr. Willis' books, Distance Education - Strategies and Tools and Distance Education - A Practical Guide.
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Center for Distance Learning Research, Texas A&M University
The mission of the Center is to provide timely and appropriate information on the development, application and maintenance of information technology systems. This information is provided through demonstration, training, publications and technical assistance.
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Distance Learning for Educators
This section geared towards Educators is produced by the Distance Learning Resource Network (DLRN).
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Guiding Principles for Faculty in Distance Learning
A set of guidelines which define good practice in distance learning and give faculty a clear benchmark for designing, developing, delivering, and assessing distance learning courses and/or programs.
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Beginnings: Initial Experiences in Teaching via Distance Education
The articles by Indiana Higher Education Faculty in this collection were written to provide guidance for faculty who are thinking about teaching students at a distance.
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Resources for Distance Education (inactive)
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/distance.htm
A list maintained by Professor Charles Darling Capital Community College Hartford, Connecticut.
Effective Lecturing
Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
Independent Learning
Problem-Based Learning
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Problem-Based
Learning at McMaster
McMaster University is a world class leader in problem-based
learning, pioneered by its Medical School. The recent integration
of technologies into teaching and learning around the world poses
questions about the role to be played by problem-based learning in
an educational system in which information technologies occupy a prominent
position.
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Problem-Based
Learning at the Queen's University
This site contains “The PBL Handbook - Web Version Contents
” & “The PBL Handbook - Printable Version ” published
by the Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Queens University,
Ontario, Canada.
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D.R.
Woods Book on Problem-Based Learning
Written for teachers and instructional development people to
give the how to details for most issues that students and teachers
encounter in implementing a PBL program. This gives nitty-gritty,
how-to details. This was initially published as part of the teacher's
guide in 1994. It was expanded and revised in 1995 and sent out to
about 40 educators for comments and suggestions. The book has been
subsequently revised in 1996.
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Problem-Based
Learning Initiative (PBLI), Southern Illinois University, School of
Medicine
Many of the sections in this web site describe patient problems
and PBL learning and assessment processes in medicine. Examples of
PBL as an educational process for teachers outside of medicine can
be found here. The intent of the PBLI is to help you design problems
in your area and apply PBL in your teaching programs.
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The
Centre for Problem-Based Learning, Samford University, USA
The Center’s mission, then, is to serve as a clearinghouse
of information about PBL in undergraduate and professional education.
To accomplish their goals, Center staff members gather information
from course design efforts at Samford University and from research
on national and international practices. This Web site is intended
to let you know more about the Centre's efforts and findings.
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PBL
at Maricopa
An overview about Problem Based Learning. Read how our faculty
team got started with PBL, some words from students.
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PBL
at University of Delaware
This site contains articles & books on PBL, sample PBL Problems, PBL courses & syllabi are also described here.
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Papers & Publications on PBL, Republic Polytechnic
These are papers written by CED staff that have been presented at international conferences and/ or published in educational journals/ books.
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Inquiry & Problem Solving (inactive)
http://www.enc.org/topics/inquiry/
Articles on this site show how classroom teachers encourage their students to become inquirers and problem solvers.
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Case Studies in Science
Taken from the State University of New York at Buffalo, this site lists videotapes, articles, books, bibliographies, and web links to the case study literature.
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Decentered Classrooms: The WWW and Problem Based Learning in Introductory Philosophy
Author: Ronnie Littlejohn and Mike Awalt,
Belmont University
This presentation explains how problem-based learning and the World Wide Web (WWW) may be used in collaboration to shift student learning experiences in dramatic ways and to encounter the tasks and concerns of philosophy.
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Using online technologies to support problem based learning
Author: Ron Oliver and Arshad Omari, Edith Cowan University
Plagiarism
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Plagiarism
and the Web by Bruce Leland
A good nuts and bolts site; great for a quick reference or
as a resource for planning a workshop for faculty.
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Thinking
and Talking About Plagiarism by Nick Carbone
A must read!
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Plagiarism:
What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
Writing Tutorial Services, Indiana University, Bloomington,
IN. 8 October 2001.
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Avoiding
Plagiarism
This site provides guidelines for avoiding plagiarism, examples
on how to cite properly, etc.
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Cyber-Plagiarism University of Alberta Libraries, Canada
This web site examines the issues of cyber-plagiarism and what
faculty can do to prevent, detect, and report plagiarism.
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Plagiarism.org
An online resource for educators concerned with the growing
problem of Internet plagiarism
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Plagiarism
& How to Avoid It
Christina Low. Former Publications Officer, CDTL, National University
of Singapore.
- Student Plagiarism in an Online World
Author: Julie J.C.H. Ryan
The proliferation of webpages and electronic publications makes plagiarism easier to accomplish and harder to recognize. This website highlights some tools to help you expose cybercheaters.
Small Group Teaching
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The
ASTER Project, UK Higher Education Funding Council for England (inactive)
http://cti-psy.york.ac.uk/aster/
ASTER is a consortium project funded by the UK Higher Education
Funding Council for England (HEFCE) under Phase 3 of the Teaching
and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP3). This project aims to establish,
validate and disseminate a corpus of good practice and expertise on
the use of communications and information technology for small-group
teaching.
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Small
Group Teaching by David Jaques
From the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development ,
this article discusses on 1. Characteristics of a group; 2. Leadership
interventions ; and 3. Evaluating groups.
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Small group Teaching, Hong Kong Institute of Education project (inactive)
http://crucial.ied.edu.hk/smgptchg.html
A very nice working guide to running small group teaching,
and it offers a few staff development exercises which might be useful
for a staff development afternoon or as part of a "New Teacher Induction
Seminar".
Using IT/ICT
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Handbook
for Instructors on the Use of Electronic Class Discussion
Prepared by Nancy Chism, Director, Office of Faculty
and TA Development , The Ohio State University
Provides instructors on one particular use of instructional technology-the
use of electronic communication to extend class discussion beyond
the time and place of class meetings.
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The
use of computers in the assessment of student learning
by Nora Mogey & Helen Watt, LTDI, Institute for
Computer Based Learning, UK
Using computers in assessment does not have to mean more multiple
choice testing to the exclusion of other assessment techniques. A
wide range of innovative assessment methods lend themselves to computer
based implementation.
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Web-based
Assessment: Two UK Initiatives
by Dave Whittington, Robert Clark Centre for Technological
Education, University of Glasgow, UK ; Joanna Bull , University
of Luton, UK; and Myles Danson, Loughborough University, UK
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This paper describes two UK initiatives aimed at promoting and disseminating
best practice in the use of computer assisted assessment. Both initiatives
are tackling the technological, pedagogical and organisational aspects
of using the Web to support student assessment.
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Teaching
with Electronic Technology
by Michael L. Hall, University of Maryland.
This web page conatins a listing of a considerable variety of uses
for computing and related forms of electronic technology in teaching
- provides information about conferences, publications, and general
discussions of teaching with electronic technology.
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