Katherine Conway

A common medical understanding of disability is that people with disabilities often report feeling excluded, undervalued, pressured to fit in, and/or be treated as if they were globally incapacitated. People with disabilities often express frustration when they are met with pitying attitudes or incredulity if they speak about anything positive related to living with their conditions. For many people with disabilities, the main disadvantage they experience does not stem directly from their bodies, but rather from their unwelcome reception in the world, in terms of how physical structures, institutional norms, and social attitudes exclude and/or denigrate them.

Having laws such… >>>

I learned that Title IX, The Clery Act and Violence Against Women Act, are all acts to prevent an individual being excluded from higher education based on gender, The Clery Act requires institutions of higher education to collect and record data on crime. –Was enacted into law in 1972 by the federal government. No person, on the basis of sex, should be excluded from participation in, any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.

The CleryAct – was enacted in 1990 to require all schools receiving federal monies to collect and publish information about crimes occurring on campus. The… >>>

I found it interesting looking at the concepts of Validity and Reliability. You can complete research that is Reliable without being Valid, but you cannot have Validity without the research being Reliable. As Dr Roberta Heale shared in her article, (Validity and Reliability in quantitative studies, Evidence Based Nursing July 2015| volume 18| number 3) An effective example of validity and reliability is an alarm clock that rings at 7:00am each morning, but is set for 6:30am. It is very reliable (it consistently rings the same time each day), but is not valid… >>>

Following a recent Webinar, I see ways to personalize the Rubric grading process. Having an Analytical approach vs Holistic means greater feedback can be given to students. It is also important for accurate data collection.

The Rubric can often become an automated response that is comprised of clicking on multiple criteria boxes with little individualized or meaningful feedback included in the process. Generic responses on a numerical line graph are often received by students as a shallow and impersonal form of grading. Although  the assignments that have Rubric  scoring are often for the maximum points of 35/35. They are considered too low a grade to spend much time on ! The key point here is to write individualized feedback, this is your one chance each week to show you are on top of your students… >>>

Good points Cassandre, Optimizing student interaction early is important, as it takes one to two weeks to know your different student personality types I try to interact early with the Student Lounge, the welcome video, and create an approachable tone. I use a color code dot each week over each student who I have responded to, so I keep my responses balanced throughout the course.