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Using Data-Driven Teaching to Drive Assessment Design and Student Success
Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT
Big Ten Room
Reflective, data-driven teaching practices help instructors answer the question, "How do I know if what I'm doing in the classroom is working?" Importantly, engaging in reflective cycles of teaching, collecting data, and making changes based upon data (see Brookfield, 2017) can inform assessment design and strategies for student success.  

The Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence's Action Research Scholars program at the University of Illinois Chicago builds capacity for instructors to systematically investigate the efficacy of their teaching. The program uses a scaffolded approach grounded in an ethos of care for instructor well-being by providing training, connections to campus experts, and space for dialogue and community with peers across disciplines. The program culminates in an IRB approved research plan, data collection, and dissemination of findings.

During the session, participants will hear from instructors who have completed the program. Moderators will ask panelists about their research questions, study design, and findings; issues of power and marginalization that they navigated; challenges they faced; and the impact of their study on their assessments and students' learning experience. Moderators will lead participants through a reflective teaching exercise in which participants will brainstorm with colleagues about strategies to implement data-driven teaching in their contexts.
Moderators
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Crystal Tse

Associate Director for Faculty Engagement in Action Research, University of Illinois Chicago
Speakers
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Trischa Duke

Senior Lecturer, University of Illinois Chicago
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Tara Driscoll

Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
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April Andry Rahman

Assistant Director of Education Research / Adjunct Instructor, University of Illinois Chicago / Chicago State University
I'm an educational developer in the University of Illinois Chicago's Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence and adjunct faculty in the Nontraditional Degree Programs at Chicago State University. I bridge teaching and research with Black feminist homeplace pedagogies that... Read More →
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Laura Thorp

Clinical Associate Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT
Big Ten Room
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