Welcome to Grading: Making It Conducive to Learning.  This is a self-paced tutorial targeted to Minnesota State Colleges and Universities faculty that that want to make sure that their methods of assessment are accurate, effective, and fair.  It contains information from a weekend seminar presented by Barbara Walvoord.  If you attended the seminar, this tutorial offers an opportunity to revisit Walvoord's material and suggestions.  If you were unable to attend, you have the materials from the workshop to peruse at the pace that works for you.

Assessment can and should be a key part of how we think about our work and our work with students.  The Center for Teaching and Learning also offers tutorials that deal with other fundamental elements of instruction: Designing Plagiarism-Proof Assignments provides insight about assuring that students do their own work, Motivating Students gives suggestions for engaging the interest of your students, and Classroom Management Strategies and Classroom Incivility are resources for developing and maintaining functional learning environments.

This tutorial contains several documents that you can open and print.  The entire handout from the seminar is also available as a single PDF file.

Barbara E. Walvoord, Ph.D., is the Director Emerita of the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, Coordinator for the North Central Association Accreditation Self-Study, Concurrent Professor of English, and Fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.  She is Principal Investigator for a study of the teaching practices of fifty outstanding teachers of introductory theology and religion, supported by the Lilly Foundation through the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.  She consults and leads workshops nationally on effective teaching, assessment of student learning, writing across the curriculum, and classroom research.  She was named Maryland English Teacher of the Year for Higher Education in 1987; she also received the University of Notre Dame President's Award for service to the university in 2000.

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