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5. Teaching Excellence Fostered Through Institutional Collaboration: A Case for an Effective Assessment Rubric
No full textTeaching excellence is a defining characteristic and ongoing challenge at small liberal arts institutions, where instructor independence and mission-driven education converge. Defining and measuring it in such contexts involves navigating instructor autonomy, institutional mission, administrative oversight, and accreditation requirements. This chapter presents a case-based approach to addressing these challenges at Brescia University, a small liberal arts school in Owensboro, KY. We offer an example of an implementable solution that fosters and documents teaching excellence while aligning with both generally accepted standards and the university’s mission. Additionally, we model a collaborative development process between the offices of the Academic Dean and the Center for Teaching and Learning, the two main architects of the teaching excellence assessment rubric
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Get PDFShortly after completing a groundbreaking study, a researcher receives an email from a science news website offering to promote their findings to a wider audience. But there’s a fee attached, and they want to know if the library will help cover the cost
An Invitation to Language: Fostering Critical Language Awareness Through Assignment Design
Get PDFFirst-year composition (FYC) instructors are often required to teach institution-issued course outcomes alongside their personal values. The author proposes a pedagogy to identify how teachers can invite rhetorical and linguistic agency in student writers and teach toward institutional objectives. To do so, the author shares her approach for revising existing and creating new FYC assignments that invite students to use their multiple codes and languagings (ways of communicating) in their writing. The assignments are driven by translanguaging approaches in writing instruction, specifically code-meshing and Critical Language Awareness (CLA), a theoretical framework coined by Shapiro, and integrate three settings in which languaging occurs naturally: family, music, and social media. The author revised or created an assignment that involves those settings to invite students to use their multiple languages and explains her pedagogical reasons for making those changes. The author argues for the importance of finding actionable ways to teach languaging through a rhetorical lens and extends an invitation to teachers of writers to use their agency to create a safe space for diverse student writers
It\u27s Definitely New and Different...It\u27s Really Engaging : Understanding the Power of Storytelling Towards Secure Password Creation
No full textThere is a dearth in existing literature to attain systematic understanding of leveraging digital storytelling in security designs. As we begin to address this gap, we focused on user authentication where the existing password composition policies and password meters often fail to help users around creating a strong and memorable password. To this end, we conducted a lab study with 19 participants, where we updated our initial designs in an iterative manner based on their feedback. We then conducted a between-subject online study with 104 participants over Amazon Mechanical Turk to evaluate our designs. We found that all of our designs received positive ratings from participants in terms of how they felt confident, and capable in password creation upon interacting with our design. Taken together, the findings from our studies unpacked users\u27 perceptions and preferences in using storytelling around password creation, where we provide guideline for future research in these directions
The Impact On Life-Cycle Consumption, Saving, Labor Supply, And On Bequests When Individuals Possess Time-Inconsistent Preferences
Get PDFThis study examines how the presence of time-inconsistent preferences affects a representative individual\u27s decisions about how much to consume, to save, and how intensively to work, in addition to the size of a bequest to leave behind at death. The model is used to analyze the behavior of both time-inconsistent individuals (characterized by a hyperbolic discount function) and the behavior of time-consistent individuals (characterized by an exponential discount function). The model demonstrates how these two representative types of individuals make intertemporal choices over time. While the model distinguishes between time-inconsistent and time-consistent individuals with respect to using alternative discount functions, the findings of this study indicate that the key behavioral outcomes of intensive labor supply, consumption, saving, and bequest size, can be observationally equivalent under many model parameterizations
Beyond the Basics Motivation and Assessment in Sustaining Arabic Learning
Get PDFThis portfolio presents the teaching philosophy, examples of teaching approaches and techniques, and a research project of the writer for the Master of Second Language Teaching at Utah State University (USU). It highlights collaboration with colleagues and faculty in Second Language Acquisition research, providing an overall overview of the entire experience. The research in this portfolio explores the theories behind language teaching and assessment through two sections: first, the teaching philosophy, and second, hands-on experience section. The third section focuses on the main research paper, which examines the motivational factors influencing students in Arabic, French, and German classes to continue learning these languages. Finally, the portfolio concludes with the writer’s future goals