Miriam Markum on Two-Stage Assessments: A SITT Interview with Dr. Andy

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Please check out our SITT 2022 interview with Miriam Markum!

As a teaser for the 2022 Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology, we are posting a series of Wheel articles showcasing interviews with faculty and staff on the theme of this year's SITT, "Unmuting our Students." The third of our interviews features Miriam Markum, Assistant Professor of Teaching in the College of Biological Sciences. Professor Markum has been teaching remote and in-person classes with two-stage assessments.

Two-stage exams measure individual student mastery while also providing a highly-engaging, collaborative learning opportunity to our UC Davis students. During a two-stage exam, students first take an individual exam and then work together in small groups to answer the same or related problems. The group discussions help students learn from their peers and result in reduced exam anxiety; instructors appreciate the high level of engagement this approach motivates and the way it complements other active learning elements in the class. In this interview, Drs. Markum and Jones discuss how to implement this innovative style of exam with an inclusive and equitable lens.

We invite you to review the full interview with Miriam Markum!  

As the SITT website is now live, please sign up now for live talks and start to review the on-demand content. We will have speakers, panels, and forums for attendee participation. Also, please contact us if you know a perhaps new (or new to SITT) colleague whom we could contact directly to invite to join us. We hope to see you at SITT 2022!

Dr. Andy Jones

Academic Associate Director, Academic Technology Services
Editor in Chief, The Wheel
University of California, Davis