This workshop will provide a definition of three major types of plagiarism from innocent to intentional and discuss the faculty role in minimizing plagiarism. Often, students commit plagiarism without realizing it because we assume they know how to avoid it, and then there are those students who are just determined to willfully beat the system. How do we know the difference? What do we do about this growing problem?

It seems as though every classroom has at least one of these on the roster: an aggressive student, an overly-talkative student, an emotional student, or a full-of-excuses student. While the instructors receive textbooks and manuals to aid in teaching the course content, they do not receive manuals to aid in managing the classroom. This interactive session will allow instructors to examine the types of students they have in their classrooms and gain practical tools to help them effectively manage the classroom.

Are your tests really assessing your students’ mastery of Bloom’s higher order thinking skills? This webinar will help participants improve their test-writing skills by teaching them the elements of a good test question. We will analyze test questions to determine if they are assessing what is intended. We will also learn how to write good test questions.

Instructors cringe when students say, "I studied for hours, but when I took the exam, everything I studied flew out of my head!" This session will address the advantages of assessments that are part of an ongoing process involving both the professor and the student, as well as techniques to help students develop “test-wiseness” and deal effectively with test anxiety.