Yale Center for Teaching and Learning

ITW: Assessing Participation Equitably

Audience 

Graduate & Professional Students, Postdoctoral Fellows

Event Time 

Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 11:30am to 1:00pm

Location of Event: 

Poorvu Center, 301 York street, Room 120A

Event Description 

Do you want to improve your methods of eliciting and tracking participation from your students? Are you concerned with whether you assess participation in a fair and responsible manner? This workshop will consider how biases impact our assessments of student participation and explore concrete strategies to fairly evaluate participation for all students in the classroom. We will investigate strategies to enhance and evaluate class participation at all moments of the course - defining participation for your students on the first day, keeping track of participation throughout the semester, and recognizing diverse forms of student participation when determining a final grade. Participants will come away from this workshop with concrete tools and ideas to improve the fairness and suitability of their participation grades. For more information, contact Emily Theus (emily.theus@yale.edu) and Rachel Wilson (rachel.wilson@yale.edu).

Please note: Intermediate Teaching Workshops do not presuppose any previous engagement with the topic, but will draw on topics mentioned in the Fundamentals of Teaching/the CIRTL MOOC.

This workshop will be held in person.

Register here.