Faculty Resources

Course Design

• Syllabus template (revised September 2013)
  
  • Syllabus example
   
• Guide to learning outcomes (November 2015)
• Presentation on constructive alignment  
• Examples of learning outcomes
• Blooms Taxonomy (revised 2001)  
• Blooms Taxonomy: Model questions and key words  
• Linking outcomes to graded work  
• Linking outcomes to learning and teaching activities

Core Curriculum Revision

• Presentation on course design strategies
• Step by step: Designing courses for the revised core
• Core course proposal forms are on the Core Curriculum Revision website
• SU Core revision - Description LOs Essential pedagogies

Bibliographies

• Academic leadership
• Mid-career faculty
• Aging and retirement

Deep Approaches to Learning
(learn more here)

• Summary: approaches to learning
• Extract: four components to a deep approach to learning
• Worksheet: Reducing course design features that cause a surface approach to learning
• Worksheet: Increasing course design features that cause a deep approach to learning

Example Mid-Term Student Course Evaluation Forms

We encourage you to adapt these forms to suit your own context and the kinds of questions you would like students to answer. Each link opens an MS Word document in a new window.

• Class reaction survey 
• Constructive statements
• Discussion-seminar opinion form
• Six open-ended questions
• Teacher behaviors inventory
• Three open-ended questions
• Create your own survey form

Analyzing Course Evaluation Comments

We encourage you to save yourself some time by using these two documents below to structure your course evaluation analysis so that you can make good decisions based on real data. Both links open an MS Word document in a new window.

• Evaluation comment sorting tool: Items within my control
• Evaluation comment sorting tool: Items outside my control

Examples of Rubrics

• Essay rubric: analytic (U of Wyoming)
• Debate rubric: analytic (Purdue U)
• Scientific papers: analytic (PJ Alaimo and J Langenhan, Seattle U )
• Class participation: analytic (B Kelly and T Huston, Seattle U)
• Annotated bibliographies: analytic (J Bean, Seattle U)
• Application of theory: analytic (D Green, UCE Birmingham, UK)
• Practical proposal: analytic (J Bean, Seattle U)
• Public argument: analytic (J Bean, Seattle U)

AAC&U VALUE Rubrics

All 16 of the below rubrics are reprinted with permission from Assessing Outcomes and Improving Achievement: Tips and tools for Using Rubrics, edited by Terrel L. Rhodes. Copyright 2010 by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

    Intellectual and Practical Skills

• Inquiry and analysis
• Critical thinking
• Creative thinking
• Written communication
• Oral communication  
• Reading
• Quantitative literacy  
• Information literacy
• Teamwork  
• Problem solving

    Personal and Social Responsibility

• Civic engagement - local and global
• Intercultural knowledge and competence
• Ethical reasoning
• Foundations and skills for lifelong learning
• Global learning

    Integrative and Applied Learning

• Integrative learning