- Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence

Making Multiple Choice Tests More Effective Handouts - Linda Suskie

These handouts (minus quizzes for test security) accompanied a presentation by Linda Suskie delivered via Zoom on Tuesday, Apr. 25, 2017. Multiple-choice tests can have a place in many courses. If they’re well designed, they can yield useful information on student achievement of many important course objectives, including some thinking skills. An item analysis of the results can shed light on how well the questions are working as well as what students have learned. Viewers will be able to use principles of good question construction to develop tests, develop test questions that assess thinking skills as well as conceptual understanding, and use item analysis to understand and improve both test questions and student learning.

Making Multiple Choice Tests More Effective PowerPoint - Linda Suskie

These PowerPoint slides accompanied a presentation by Linda Suskie delivered via Zoom on Tuesday, Apr. 25, 2017. Multiple-choice tests can have a place in many courses. If they’re well designed, they can yield useful information on student achievement of many important course objectives, including some thinking skills. An item analysis of the results can shed light on how well the questions are working as well as what students have learned. Viewers will be able to use principles of good question construction to develop tests, develop test questions that assess thinking skills as well as conceptual understanding, and use item analysis to understand and improve both test questions and student learning. Be sure to open the handouts file listed below as you view the presentation!

Matrices for Aligning Gen Ed Goals and Courses

There are matrices to use when aligning specific General Education courses with core competencies.

McKinney Student Ratings Quiz and Answers

This is a true and false quiz to test assumptions about student ratings.

Media and Technology Support Services

MediaTech houses, circulates, and maintains a pool of equipment to support academic credit instruction at the University Park campus. Services include media collection of more than 23,000 films, videos, and DVDs, media duplication, video editing labs, and video taping of class presentations.

Mentoring Basics and Key Points

Mentoring history, mentoring and mentee (protege) questions, basics of good mentoring relationships, key points about mentoring that might surprise you, mentoring phases, and activities for a group of mentees looking or mentors.

Mentoring Citations

Citations about mentoring, primarily academic mentoring. Includes references for mentoring faculty, mentoring graduate students, mentoring minority academic, mentoring for diversity & inclusion.

Message to Students Template for Emerging Academic Integrity Issue

Metacongition Inventory

Metqacognitive Inventory

Michigan State University, Inclusive Teaching Resources

This page lists resources that can help faculty create inclusive classrooms. Resources are related to diversity and inclusivity.

Microaggressions Activity

This matching and discussion activity helps participants recognize how different audiences can interpret language and microaggressions and understand the implications of speech. Participants are asked to identify and interpret microaggressions and have an opportunity to modify questions or comments in ways that are less likely to reflect stereotypic assumptions and beliefs. Additional discussion questions expand the activity by prompting reflection. Created as a student activity by Professor Mary Kite, and her students LaCount "JJ" Togans, LaDeidre Robinson, and Kelly Lynn Meredith at Ball State University.

Middle States Commission on Higher Education General Education Information

This one-page paper provides an overview of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education's general education requirements. A list of resources is included.

Midsemester Class Interviews_Desc and Form

The Midterm/Midsemester Class Interview (or Small Group Instructional Diagnosis, SGID) is a process designed to help instructors learn what their students think about how the course is going. Students identify elements of the class that are helping them learn and offer suggestions to strengthen the course. We recommend using this procedure in the middle of the semester, after students have received at least one grade. The process involves three steps: 1) meeting with an instructional consultant to discuss the instructor's objectives for the process; 2) a class interview with small groups and a whole class discussion; and a post-interview summary and discussion of the results with the consultant.

Midterm Class Interviews

The Midterm/Midsemester Class Interview (or Small Group Instructional Diagnosis, SGID) is a process designed to help instructors learn what their students think about how the course is going. Students identify elements of the class that are helping them learn and offer suggestions to strengthen the course. We recommend using this procedure in the middle of the semester, after students have received at least one grade. The process involves three steps: 1) meeting with an instructional consultant to discuss the instructor's objectives for the process; 2) a class interview with small groups and a whole class discussion; and a post-interview summary and discussion of the results with the consultant.

Mindfulness Recording

Multiple Choice Item Writing Rules

This handout was provided at the workshop "Writing High Quality Multiple Choice Questions" (10/26/2018) by Hoi K. Suen

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Educational Psychology

The Penn State University

Multiple Sources for Reflection

Self-reflection as it relates to teaching is the practice of critically thinking about our experiences and their implications by drawing on multiple sources. These sources include peers, students, self, and literature.

Tools and Resources

Alphabetical List