J. Blustein
Contents
- Oral Presentations
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Students use these to evaluate each other's oral presentations in my
seminar classes. Students know that these are the criteria I use to
grade their presentations because I tell them so and they get copies
of the forms with their syllabus.
- Latest peer-assessment version: 2009-04-01
- PDF version of oral
presentation grading form
- PostScript version of oral presentation grading form
- LaTeX source file for oral presentation grading form
- Latest assessment by teacher version: 2023-01-30
- PDF version of teacher's assessment of oral presentation grading form
- LaTeX source file for teacher's assessment of oral presentation grading form
- PDF version of additional pages with space for more comments
- LaTeX source file for additional pages with space for more comments
See also graduate teaching assessment forms
- Oral Presentations
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Students use these to evaluate each others' oral presentations in my
some of my senior undergraduate courses. Students present in pairs
for a short time (15 minutes). This form is adapted from the graduate
form (above).
- Latest version: 2019-10-18
- PDF version of group undergraduate oral
presentation grading form
- PostScript version of group undergraduate oral presentation
grading form
- LaTeX source file for group undergraduate oral presentation
grading form
- I have sometimes used a PDF form version that
automatically computes final grades but I find it too difficult to do
in LaTeX.
- Version: 2006-06-06
- PDF version of paired undergraduate oral
presentation grading form
- PostScript version of paired undergraduate oral presentation
grading form
- LaTeX source file for paired undergraduate oral presentation
grading form
The Groupwork peer-assessment is based on the work of many others so
it is not available under a Creative Commons license.
- PDF
file
- Version: 2019-12-20
- LaTeX
source
- Version: 2019-12-20
- PNG graphic file
- of the evaluation scale for the LaTeX source
- HTML
version I use in my Brightspace instances
- Brightspace has limited support for HTML and forces
colour choices.
- Version: 2022
These paper forms are what I used before swirching to an
(online) Learning Management System. Now I use an online
survey with the similar questions and I take them up once a week in my
classes. I do not have a webpage for them specifically but you
can find them by following these links:
- Start/Stop/Continue and What was the most difficult concept or topic from the most recent
lecture
that you would like reviewed? - as individual XML files
- a
Brightspace package file (in .zip format)
All of these assessments are anonymous. (At Dalhousie U. student evaluation of faculty used for
tenure and promotion must be signed, unless the faculty member
waives that right.)
I insist on anonymous evaluations during the course because I feel it
gives me more useful feedback with which to tune the course. I make
sure that the forms are anonymous by telling students not to put their
names on them, and by how I collect the forms.
Students may complete the forms in the classroom (in class-time or when
they have finished answering questions on the test) or in their own
time. If they complete them during class then the students put the
forms into a single shared envelope that is far away from me. (I
collect the test papers myself but students put the forms into the
envelope themselves.) Students may also insert forms into the envelope
at the start of the next class or by slipping them under my office
door. Of course I never read the forms until everyone has had enough
time to submit them.
I find discussing the general results and most prominent points from
the surveys helps the students to get more out of the course.
On the advice of my former dean (Jacob Slonim) I do not
conduct end-of-course or final exam assessments of my own. My Faculty
conducts a course evaluation during one of the last lectures each
semester.
- Mid-semester
- PDF
version of graduate mid-semester evaluation
- PostScript version of graduate mid-semester evaluation
- LaTeX source file for graduate mid-semester evaluation
See also graduate peer assessment forms
- Mid-semester (Paper)
- PDF
version of undergraduate mid-semester evaluation
- PostScript version of undergraduate mid-semester evaluation
- LaTeX source file for undergraduate mid-semester evaluation
- Mid-semester (PDF form)
- Latest version: 2011-07-06
- PDF form
version of undergraduate mid-semester evaluation
- LaTeX source file for PDF form version of
undergraduate mid-semester evaluation
- Post-test
- Note: the post-test evaluation is not covered by
the creative commons license.
- PDF
version of post-test evaluation
- PostScript version of post-test evaluation
- LaTeX source file for post-test evaluation
Common mistakes in writing program source code
See Common Program Code Mistakes
Please tell me if you find these material useful, or if you have
suggestions for other materials I should host here.
Except for the post-test and groupwork forms, all of the
assesment instruments linked to from this webpage are licensed under
a Creative
Commons License. They can be used for commercial purposes
only with my express permission.
- The graduate oral presentation form
- benefited from suggestions by Norm Scrimger (at Dalhousie).
- The undergraduate oral presentation form
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- was adapted from the graduate oral presentation form;
- was developed in consultation with Suzanne Le-May Sheffield (at
Dalhousie);
- the notion of grading based on interaction, and the specific
wording, came out of discussion with Dr. Le-May Sheffield.
- The mid-semester forms
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had their genesis in a form created by Guy Zimmerman at Bowling Green
State University's Computer Science Department. Ron Conway (also of
BGSU's
CS Dept.) recommended the start/stop/continue
questions.
- The post-test form
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is adapted from Figure 1 of
Examinations: Accentuating
the Positive
by McMullen-Pastrick and Gleason in Teaching
College: Collected Readings for the New Instructor, Neff and
Weimer (eds.), Magna Publications,
Inc. (1990).
Created on 05 May 2002 by J. Blustein.
Last major update on 12 July 2012 by J. Blustein;
Last update of any kind on 15 October 2024 by J. Blustein.