Abstract
College has a lot of unwritten rules, and some of our students matriculate knowing those rules while others don’t. Research has shown that revising homework assignments to make these unwritten rules explicit can help students’ academic confidence and sense of belonging. These revisions don’t change the intellectual content, they just provide the meta information that we assume that students already know. Come to the session for a crash course on making your assignments transparent! We hope you’ll decide to join us this summer in a community to support each other in revising our assignments to be more transparent! We understand if people need to come late or leave early!
Learning outcomes:
At the end of this session, participants will be able to
- Identify transparent teaching practices that apply to their course(s)
- Find relevant resources for making their course(s) transparent.
- Critique example course materials and identify ways they do and do not meet transparent teaching practices
- Adapt course materials to meet transparent teaching guidelines