Identifying & Addressing Learning Obstacles with Direct Measures √ §
See how Math colleagues successfully created an intervention
Location
Engineering : 102
Date & Time
February 27, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Description
Does your program require intense core courses or other learning experiences that have become hurdles for your students? Are courses with high failure or withdrawal rates impeding student progress to degree completion? How can you help students successfully hurdle challenging learning obstacles? Direct measures–tools that reveal what students have learned and what they still need to learn–are at the core of this work, since they help educators to pinpoint the learning problem; decide how to intervene (i.e., close the loop); and design multiple direct and indirect measures to gauge an intervention’s effectiveness. In this workshop, colleagues from Mathematics and Statistics will demonstrate how they identified a learning obstacle, created an intervention, and measured its effectiveness. Join us to discuss how using multiple direct and indirect measures can lift students over learning hurdles.
√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate
Lunch will be provided to all registered participants, please click “Going” below to reserve your seat for this session. Please email fdc@umbc.edu
to note any dietary restrictions (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, food
allergies, etc.) by Thursday, February 20. The deadline to register
for this event is the earlier of Thursday, February 20 or when the
event reaches capacity. Please email fdc@umbc.edu
to be added to a wait list if the event is full. If you have
registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release
your spot so that others may attend.
√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate
Part of the FDC Leadership & Teaching Series
Launched in March 2018!
Sessions in this series are designed to help you to reflect on challenges in collegiate teaching and how you, in your role as a formal or informal leader at UMBC, can contribute to innovative solutions. Faculty and staff colleagues will address specific challenges in interactive presentations designed to help you explore key questions, for example:
Launched in March 2018!
Sessions in this series are designed to help you to reflect on challenges in collegiate teaching and how you, in your role as a formal or informal leader at UMBC, can contribute to innovative solutions. Faculty and staff colleagues will address specific challenges in interactive presentations designed to help you explore key questions, for example:
- How can you use research to improve teaching, learning, and curriculum design?
- How can you connect to other teaching leaders to identify common challenges and devise shared solutions?
- How can you contribute to a collaborative culture of evidence-based teaching to improve student learning?
- How can you identify policies, processes, and technologies that make it easier to gather and use evidence of student learning?
- Are chairs, deans, graduate program directors, or have formal leadership roles, or
- Have informal leadership roles or who aspire to be campus leaders.
Please note that this is an in person program with lunch! Therefore, registration will close on February 20 or when we reach the room's capacity. Funding for in person programs is limited, so we ask that you please commit to coming upon registration and kindly release your spot if you can no longer attend.
