I was invited to give a talk for Dan Wolczuk's seminar for UW instructors, and chose to talk about Assessment Design for Learning. You can view the presentation here and access the slides below. In it, I touch on several of the ways I design assessments in my courses to encourage student learning, including:
Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning
Incorporating high level questions into assessments
Back in early 2015, the SAS (Stats and Act Sci) department was having a discussion about CS students in the two required STAT courses (230: Probability and 231: Statistics). While CS students are as strong as other Math students in most courses, they were systematically underperforming in STATs.
The idea that got the most traction was to pilot a special section of STAT 230, which would focus on the CS applications of probability. The hope was that by including more relevant examples, and pointing out the many important tie-ins to later CS courses, the students would be more...
My team Roze, later renamed Roze Labs, were the overall winners of the Hack4Health (H4H) 2.0 hackathon, hosted by MAREP at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship at the University of Waterloo.
Final pitch with Rui Su, Lori-Ann Williams, Marium kirmani, and myself. ...
