Author: Kathleen Jacobi

When Grading Practices Fail

April 2, 2025 by Kathleen Jacobi

Are you looking for ways to support your students through the assessment/grading process? Five colleagues share their experience with nontraditional and alternative grading practices. Assessment is an important teaching tool. Yet, some aspects of traditional grading systems can reinforce imbalanced power structures. Studying grading practices more closely can help instructors accurately measure students’ knowledge, skills, […]

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Join Us for the 2025 Provost’s Summit: Fostering Inclusiveness in an Evolving Educational Landscape

January 29, 2025 by Kathleen Jacobi, Sarah Ackermann

This blog is the second in our Summit series. Stay tuned next week to learn more about The virtual Ball State Provost Summit is February 6 and 7, 2025 Ball State University’s Division of Online and Strategic Learning, Office of Inclusive Excellence, and Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs are gearing up to […]

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Opening Your Door (And Your Heart) to Peer Feedback

January 11, 2023 by Kathleen Jacobi, Sarah Ackermann

We know that teaching is a highly personal experience for faculty at Ball State, and that gaining feedback isn’t as easy as simply opening up your door for someone to peek inside. At Ball State we’ve put together structures and supports to facilitate a faculty-forward peer review program. Classroom observations are common practice in the […]

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