Resources to support assessing students’ learning during class. It is often useful to be able to get a sense of how well your lecture is being understood. Are you going at an appropriate pace, and are your students managing to assimilate the new information and ideas into their existing concepts? Formative evaluation methods There are many different methods that you can use in class to check whether your students understand the course content, and some can provide additional feedback to you about the effectiveness of different teaching approaches. Iowa State University: quick overview of a range of classroom assessment techniques Electronic Voting System - collect in-class responses One technique which has become popular at Edinburgh, especially in the College of Science and Engineering is the audience response system. Erik Mazur from Harvard describes an effective in-class approach using clickers Information about Electronic Voting System platform Wooclap from Information Services This article was published on 2024-02-26
