Four Ways to Humanize Our Assessments

As educators, assessments are at the heart of our teaching practice. When we create meaningful assessments for students, we not only gauge student learning, but we also create a better understanding of what students still need to learn and what we may need to reteach.  Students care about the assessments in our course. We may

Faculty Insights: Designing Assignments to Prevent Academic Dishonesty

This piece was written by Jeff Eagan, an Associate Professor in the English Department. He loves the outdoors and collaborating across disciplines with fellow faculty. The term “authentic assessment” was unfamiliar to me when I first heard it. Like many academic buzzwords, I’d heard it before, looked it up, and was confident I was doing