TEACHx 2025: Full Schedule

8:30am CDT

Self-Efficacy and Student Learning

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT

Can a student's belief affect their behavior and learning? Research supports that self-efficacy can predict performance and account for poor performance when students have the required skills needed to learn. In this presentation, we will evaluate and explore our own self-efficacy as well as gain a general understanding of the impact of self-efficacy on learning. Then, we will discuss ways that we, as professors, administrators, parents, teachers, aunts, uncles, and others, can increase the development of belief in oneself and others. Lastly, we will work on setting two concrete goals with an action plan to implement steps to reach those goals. If a person's belief, or self-efficacy, that they can succeed influences learning, we must implement strategies to build self-efficacy.

Speakers

Susan Schulhof

Assistant Professor, National Louis University

Susan Schulhof is an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education. She has been working in the Early Childhood Education field since 2001 with previous experience in Elementary Education and Social Work. In addition to teaching and leading others, she was an Assessor and Training... Read More →

Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT
Wildcat Room

Interactive Presentation

Subject Student Success and Assessment

10:45am CDT

What is “Good” Writing?: Perspectives from The Writing Place

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT

Wildcat Room

The Writing Place is Northwestern's peer-to-peer writing center. This presentation will synthesize the research and experience of Writing Place tutors and administrators to explore the question, "What is 'good' writing?" The first 10 minutes of the session will introduce existing scholarly conversations on the teaching of writing and writing assessment as presented through the lens of writing center studies. Writing centers operate within interstitial spaces of the university, providing one-on-one feedback on student writing at a remove from the hierarchies of the classroom. Students trained to work at the Writing Place sometimes experience a disconnect between the theoretical tutoring philosophies that they learn during their tutor instruction and the real-life expectations of faculty. Our 25-minute moderated panel discussion will dig into topics such as linguistic diversity, the pressures of writing assessment on the student writing experience, and assumed conventions of "good" writing from the perspective of the writing center tutors and administrators. In the last 10 minutes, panelists will lead small break-out group conversations with the audience.

Moderators

Meaghan Fritz

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences

Meaghan Fritz received her PhD in English in 2018 from Northwestern University, where she specialized in nineteenth-century American women’s literature. She teaches College Seminars, First-Year Writing Seminars, Practical Rhetoric, and Writing and Speaking in Business in the Weinberg... Read More →

Speakers

Elizabeth Lenaghan

Professor of Instruction, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences

Amelia Hurley

Student and Undergraduate Writing Consultant at the Main Library Writing Place, School of Education and Social Policy

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT
Wildcat Room

Panel Discussion

Subject Student Success and Assessment

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