Gina Frey, director of The Teaching C
The Grading Process Workshop is intended for faculty who would like a better understanding of the principles and practice of grading.
Topics include
Enrollment is limited to 15.
Participants will receive Barbara E. Walvoord and Virginia Johnson Anderson's Effective Grading (Jossey-Bass) and J.C. Ory and Katherine Ryan's Tips for Improving Testing and Grading (Sage).
To register, email, Gina Frey.
Gina Frey, Director of The Teaching Center
The Teaching Center and the College of Arts and Sciences offer a Teaching with Writing workshop every semester for faculty who use writing in their courses. The workshop is a series of two sessions, which are intended to assist faculty in designing and evaluating writing assignments. Barbara Baumgartner, associate director of the Women and Gender Studies Program, co-teaches this workshop with Gina Frey.
Session : Wed., Sept. 17, 2008, 4:00-6:00 p.m. in Eads Hall, Rm. 217
Session II: Wed., Sept. 24, 2008, 4:00-6:00 p.m. in Eads Hall, Rm. 217
Participants will receive Joseph Williams's Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace (Longman); Andrea Lunsford's The St. Martin's Handbook (Bedford-St. Martin's); Harvey Gordon's Writing with Sources: A guide for Students (Hackett); John C. Bean's Engaging Ideas (Jossey-Bass); and Barbara E. Walvoord and Virginia J. Anderson's Effective Grading (Jossey-Bass).
Enrollment is limited to 12; each participant should attend both sessions.
To register, email Gina Frey.
You should consider taking part in this workshop if you expect students to write papers or essay exams during your course want feedback on an existing or new writing assignment are teaching or preparing to teach a Writing-Intensive course want to know how to respond more effectively to student writing want to learn from colleagues in other disciplines.
Preliminary Agenda
Session I Developing effective assignments and prompts Asking clear questions to get clear writing Critiquing workshop-participants’ writing assignments
Session II Establishing grading criteria Discussing revision comments Critiquing workshop-participants' grading criteria
