| Inside Higher Ed
Andrew L. Gillen
Offers some effective lessons from the performing arts related to delivering student feedback.
| The Chronicle of Higher Education
Beth McMurtrie
In this issue of the Chronicle's Teaching newsletter, the author shares faculty examples of creative assessment strategies, particularly ones that could translate to an online classroom.
| Faculty Focus
Matt Farrell and Shannon Maheu
Instead of wasting valuable time to deter cheating, open-book tests shift the onus of responsibility onto the students themselves.
Robert Talbert
Talbert argues that the real cause of the academic honesty problem is a grading system based on students accumulating points rather than mastering learning. Discusses how faculty can set up systems that mitigate cheating while still giving students trust, grace, and lenience through a focus on mastery grading.
