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Bloom’s Taxonomy

Last Updated December 15, 2020 By Dr. Serhat Kurt

Bloom's taxonomy

Together with Edward Gurst, David Krathwohl, Max Englehart and Walter Hill, psychologist Benjamin Bloom released Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in 1956. This framework would prove to be valuable to teachers and instructors everywhere as it allowed educators to categorize learning goals. It would later become popularly known as Bloom’s Taxonomy. See also: Using Bloom’s Taxonomy […]

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How to Create Effective Multiple Choice Questions

Last Updated November 14, 2020 By Dr. Serhat Kurt

Multiple Choice Exams

There are many advantages to using multiple choice (MC) questions as an evaluation / assessment strategy. They are easy to set up, easy to mark, and allow teachers to cover a wide range of topics. There are usually past assessments that can be used as reference to create new questions for tests. Multiple choice questions […]

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Formative and Summative Assessment

Last Updated November 12, 2020 By Dr. Serhat Kurt

Formative and Summative Assessment

Definition of  formative and summative assessment and what is the difference between them? Assessments allow both teacher and student to (a) monitor progress towards achieving learning objectives (b) improve the teaching and learning progress. As both formative and summative assessments have a distinct purpose, they are used simultaneously in educational settings. See also: How to […]

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How Can We Align Learning Objectives, Instructional Strategies, and Assessments?

Last Updated November 11, 2020 By Dr. Serhat Kurt

Align assessments, learning objectives, and instructional strategies

What is course alignment When a course is being designed, it is important to ensure that ensure that these three components of your course are aligned. In order to align various components of the course module, we must clearly define alignment itself. Alignment is when there is consistency across the program with precise connections between […]

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Teaching with Blogs

Last Updated April 24, 2020 By Dr. Serhat Kurt

What are blogs? Blogs are social media platforms that let users share thoughts and opinions with a genuine, organic audience, allowing the blog writer to easily communicate with that audience. Blogs typically read like a diary entry and contain a sequence of entries sorted from newest to oldest. Blogs may cover a variety of subjects, […]

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How To Design A Course

Last Updated January 22, 2020 By Dr. Serhat Kurt

Revise a course

This article includes tips on designing and building a course. Allow enough time to carefully plan and revise content for a new course. Careful planning will make teaching easier and more enjoyable. Talk with other teachers who have taught similar content and discuss various strategies as well as student reactions to the material, etc. In […]

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Concept Maps and How To Use Them

Last Updated January 14, 2020 By Dr. Serhat Kurt

Concept map

Concept maps help our brains take in information, mostly when there is visual information. The maps help us to see the big picture along with the connected and related data. They also help us focus on planning and making decisions of what we have learned and already know and what still needs to be learned […]

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Problem-Based Learning (PBL)

Last Updated January 8, 2020 By Dr. Serhat Kurt

Problem-Based Learning (PBL)

What is Problem-Based Learning (PBL)? PBL is a student-centered approach to learning that involves groups of students working to solve a real-world problem, quite different from the direct teaching method of a teacher presenting facts and concepts about a specific subject to a classroom of students. Through PBL, students not only strengthen their teamwork, communication, […]

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Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT)

Last Updated October 5, 2019 By Dr. Serhat Kurt

Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) is an innovative approach to education that integrates real-life and virtual instruction to maximize the efficacy of both. This teaching method is created by a team led by university professor Gregor Novak. This model involves a two-step series of learning activities: Students complete a focused set of activities (e.g., reading from the […]

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Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Write Effective Learning Objectives: The ABCD Approach

Last Updated December 17, 2020 By Dr. Serhat Kurt

Bloom

Bloom’s Taxonomy offers a framework for categorizing educational goals that students are expected to attain as learning progresses. Learning objectives can be identified as the goals that should be achieved by a student at the end of a lesson. The objectives of a lesson describe the base knowledge and skills we want our students to learn […]

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