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The Road to Authenticity through a Pressbooks Resource

Linda Facchini from The Teaching and Learning Centre at Seneca College presented at the Virtual Institute on Alternative Assessment in Higher Education on November 23, 2022. Seneca is in Toronto, Canada. The title of the session was “Road to Authenticity.” Seneca has multiple campuses with diverse programs. They offer diplomas, certificates, bachelors degrees… in-person, hybrid, […]
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Digital Narrative Assignments and Experiences of Visually Impaired Learners

Yasser Atef presented at the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022 on the experience of a visually impaired student. Atef is at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Atef shared their experience and spoke about self-reflection, self-assessment forms, and digital narratives. Atef explained how they navigate assessments and use self-assessment forms to enhance their learning. They spoke […]
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Assessment Literacies?!

As part of the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022, Andrew G. D. Holmes and Dom Henri from the University of Hull, UK spoke about “Assessment Literacies/University Literacies.” This twenty-five-minute session started with the presenters describing the challenges of reducing the “hidden curriculum:” “tacit and unwritten ‘taken-for-granted’ aspects of the curriculum that some students know and some […]
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Practical News Storytelling

Catriona Forrest from the University of Glasgow, UK presented at the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022 on “Practical News Stories.” This course and assignments have developed over time. This masters of sociology course teaches research methods and practical journalism skills. The MSc Media, Communications and International Journalism Program has four core courses. They use a rubric […]
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Self-Assessment to Encourage Exploration of the Information Landscape

Marta Samokishyn and Victoria Tsonos from Saint Paul University presented at the Alternative Assessment Institute 2022 on Incorporating Alternative Assessment Methods. Saint Paul University is in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The presenters started by explaining that Saint Paul is a small bilingual Catholic university that offers all programs in English and French. The university has ~1,300 […]
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Helping Students Prepare for Class

Tina Ballard (Elgin Community College), Sabah Sattar (Western University of Health Sciences, medical student), Heather Bergan-Roller, and Jaime Sabel presented at JMBE Live about “Actions and Resources of Introductory Biology Students.” They shared resources for students to prepare for class. They spoke about the need to prepare for class: Ballard emphasized that studying for exams […]
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Impact of Personal Medical Experiences on Engagement and Motivation in Science Courses

Porter Bischoff is an undergraduate student who spent months in the hospital as a child. They worked with Anette Lewis, Dr. Joshua Premo, and Dr. Brittney N. Wyatt on this educational study funded by NSF. They presented their work at ASMCUE 2022 as a recorded poster session entitled “Medical Experiences’ Influence on Science Motivation.” Bischoff […]
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The Parasitic Perspective

It was a good Thanksgiving! The kids ate and had fun… and are now asleep. Tonight I continued watching ASMCUE 2022 poster sessions. I watched the recording for the poster entitled “Student Driven Artistic Assignments for Complex Microbiology Processes.” Ryan Kenton is an Associate Professor at the University of Portland. Kenton believes that both science […]
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A Careful Assessment of a Lego Complement Activity

I started watching poster presentations from ASMCUE 2022. The first one with a video recording was entitled “Piecing Complement Together with LEGO bricks: Impacts on Interest, Confidence, and Learning in the Immunology Classroom,” presented by Joshua Baty, Suzanne Bohlson, Mallary Greenlee-Wacker, and Heather Bruns. Their research question was: does use of a 3D model help […]
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Lessons and Resources from CourseSource

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 session entitled “Inspiring Evidence-Based Teaching Innovations in Biology Classrooms with the Journal CourseSource.” Jenny Knight, the Editor in Chief at the University of Colorado Boulder, presented this session about CourseSource. I attended this session live, and likely missed key information! There are 39 editors, 12 advisory board members, and […]
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