Educator Resources

Academic Rigor

•  Overview of Bloom’s Taxonomy, with a list of action verbs at each level.Helpful in developing student learning objectives and considering levels of academic rigor: Bloom’s Taxonomy Overview
• Bloom’s Taxonomy Action Verbs Reference List: Bloom’s Taxonomy Action Verbs
• A tool developed by NU’s College of Adult and Professional Studies for auditing the number of estimated hours of work expected for a course: Credit Hour Workload Audit Tool
• Course Workload Estimator developed by the Rice Center for Teaching Excellence: Course Workload Estimator

Assessment

• Checklist for creating student learning objectives: Objectives Checklist
• Worksheet for connecting outcomes to curriculum and identifying appropriate assessment instruments: Outcomes Worksheet
• Overview of direct and indirect examples of assessment to measure student learning: Assessment Measures
• Worksheet for developing student learning goals and assessment: Goals Worksheet
• American Association for Higher Education principles of effective assessment, a high level overview: Principles of Good Assessment Practice
• National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment website, articles, resources, and discussion: http://www.learningoutcomeassessment.org/index.html
• Assessment tool that allows for student input: ChecBric Assessment Tool

Curriculum Mapping

• The Degree Qualifications Profile, a framework for what students should know and be able to do to earn an associate, bachelor’s, or master’s degree: http://www.natcom.org/uploadedFiles/Teaching_and_Learning/DQP%20Brochure.pdf
• Explanation of purpose for engaging in curriculum mapping: Why Do Curriculum Mapping?
• A glossary of curriculum mapping terms: Selected Bibliography of Terms
• A guide for analysis and interpretation of curriculum maps: Curriculum Roadmap
• The steps of curriculum mapping: Curriculum Mapping Steps
• A rubric to determine levels of program outcome content delivery in courses: Rubric
• One template for mapping curriculum: Template
• One example (from the discipline of psychology) of a curriculum map: Curriculum Map Example

Course Development

• A tool for estimating the amount of work required for a course: Credit Hour Workload Audit Tool
• An article and checklist for refreshing a pre-existing course (without too much pain and suffering): Instructional Design Checklist

Course Evaluations

• NU partners with IDEA to conduct course evaluations:  IDEA resources, IDEA Research and Papers
• NU information about the set-up process, administering evaluations, and reports: Course Evaluation Resources.

Diversity

• Recommended books and articles related to issues of race: Resources for Talking About Race

Faith and Learning

• Resources presented by Dr. Todd Pickett at January 2020 NU Pro Day: Transformational Education

Teaching and Learning

• Teaching Cafe (Presentations by NU faculty, sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences): Teaching Cafe
• Articles and the option of an email subscription related to teaching and learning: Tomorrow’s Professor
• Research and resources focused on teaching strategies: Faculty Focus
• Regular podcast about teaching and learning methods and resources: Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast

If you have resources or topics to add to this page, or questions and comments, please contact jim.heugel@northwestu.edu or ben.thomas@northwestu.edu.