Updating Bloom’s Taxonomy

Updating Bloom’s Taxonomy

When Bloom's Taxonomy was first published in 1956, it changed how educators categorized their educational objectives and goals. Within the original framework, there were six categories that educators could use to gauge how students were engaging with material and to...

Using Big Ideas for Course Design

Using Big Ideas for Course Design

What's the Big Idea? “Assuming for the moment that this course is the LAST course the students will ever take in the area (as opposed to the first in a series of courses), what core discipline-specific ideas/concepts do you want ALL students taking the course to...

What is Specifications Grading?

What is Specifications Grading?

  Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. A lot has changed with online learning. This is requiring many educators to also reconsider grading practices, and how to...

Zoom: Using Socrative for Student Engagement

Zoom: Using Socrative for Student Engagement

Using the Socrative polling tool, or any polling tool for that matter, can add an element of engagement to a Zoom meeting. Typically, professors use polling quizzes to check for knowledge, prepare students for exams, check for the "muddiest point" at the end of class,...