Share Paper: Learn to Learn: Formative Assessment of Online Course Quality and Student Higher-Order Learning

  1. Timothy Luckritz Marquis, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
  2. Brianne Jackson, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
  3. James Fowlkes, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
Tuesday, November 5 11:30 AM-12:30 PM Galerie 5

Abstract: This paper presents an ongoing project to develop and implement a student online course evaluation and student self-evaluation at a large, public university. The evaluation, called “Learn to Learn” (L2L), asks students at three points during an online course to evaluate their own role in the course as learning community both in terms of how they used course elements to further and understand their own learning as well as how proactive they have been in reflecting on and developing higher-order learning skills. While student evaluations of teaching (SETs) have faced criticism in recent years, L2L strives to reflect the student’s ...