CATs

Brandon Juarez posted

Brandon Juarez — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 03:32:14 -0700

Dear College of Education Faculty,

Greetings! I hope you are doing well. I wanted to take a moment to personally invite you to a virtual College of Education Deans’ Roundtable Discussion on Tuesday, September 12. This meeting will be the first of two COE Deans’ Roundtable events just for faculty during the 2023-2024 academic year. Our goal during…

Mouhamadou Sow posted

Mouhamadou Sow — Sat, 09 May 2020 04:08:05 -0700

I have used CATS in various courses. I use it as a way of checking if my student understand the concept by using question and providing answers at the end of the week. I make adjustment to my teaching and ensure that I am furthering learning and concept is understood. This is a great resource.

Donna Just posted

Donna Just — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 14:15:00 -0700

I used CATSin each class I teach, however I used different ones each time. My favorite one is for my students to watch a video of a teacher teaching and then have students answer a question about the strategy the teachers is using !

Sandra Jones posted

Sandra Jones — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 02:16:20 -0700

Thanks for CATs! CATs are simply best practices and a way to determine if the learning is taking place. I am finding that CATs guide the direction that the instructor should go the next day. If instructor finds that the majority of the class is not understanding the information as intended, it is essential that he/she should reteach in a…

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Stephen Mujeye posted

Stephen Mujeye — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 15:40:01 -0700

I have found CATs to be especially helpful with group work assignments. I have had students who struggle with participating in the group work and noticed an improvement when I posted CATs about the group work assignment the same week it is due.

Stephen.

David Andrews posted

David Andrews — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 05:52:37 -0700

In addition to assessing learners' progress toward achieving the class objectives, I've found that CATs are a wonderful collaborative tool for helping students feel at ease in the classroom. Implementing CATs early and often can create an open environment for student-centered learning. After all, isn't one of our primary goals helping students…

Nevin Smith posted

Nevin Smith — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 14:27:12 -0700

I have utilized CATs in face to face classrooms and found them exceptionally helpful because they allow students to engage. Utilizing them in the on-line classroom will add value and depth to the process.

Sally Davey posted

Sally Davey — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 10:35:11 -0700

CAT's appear to be a very useful tool to assist students learn, understand, and provide feedback as to their understanding, analysis and further understanding of material. The CAT can be instrumental both in ground and online to create not only rapport with student/instructor but also a supportive tool for material in class.

Stanley Scott posted

Stanley Scott — Tue, 16 May 2017 11:26:11 -0700

I have found that the use of CATs allows me to get a good feeling about where the students are and where they need to go. Often, when the discussion is face to face the other students react and point out things that can lead to additional CATs and make it easier to anticipate problems and sometimes solve them before they happen. I have used a…

Elizabeth Carver posted

Elizabeth Carver — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 11:23:35 -0700

I have used "think, pair, share" in the online discussion forums I have taught previously. Thank you for the 49 other ways to use this method of teaching.

Joseph Kennedy posted

Joseph Kennedy — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:23:01 -0700

Thank you for the training on CAT's and the importance for our students. I will review the 50 CAT's for my business courses.

Gale Cossette posted

Gale Cossette — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 14:38:25 -0700

I always wondered how I could get students to participate! It makes perfect sense to attach the CAT to an existing DQ rather than to create a new DQ.

Kristie Oles posted

Kristie Oles — Sun, 31 May 2015 15:04:32 -0700

I found this "on demand" webinar to be very helpful, engaging, and motivating. I have always used, muddiest point in my ground courses, but did not think to incorporate it in the on-line learning delivery. I am going to start out with implementing a muddiest point for each week then I am going to try the minute paper. I found the examples to…

Rebecca O'Kray-Murphy posted

Rebecca O'Kray-Murphy — Sun, 03 May 2015 16:01:45 -0700

I like to end the class with a one minute fast write. Often I ask, what is the muddiest point? Other times, I ask the students to write what they learned in class that day that they did not know before. I read through the responses to determine whether I need to readdress points and assess whether the students comprehend the topics.

Jaime Bennett posted

Jaime Bennett — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 10:12:39 -0700

I liked how practical this training was. I also really appreciated the suggestions for where to post your CATs to help more students see them. I have sometimes posted CATs within a discussion forum (but not as the first reply) or as their own additional thread, but I am now going to try the suggestion provided here and see if I can encourage more…

Barbara Brophy posted

Barbara Brophy — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 06:37:52 -0700

Simple and easy to follow. You gave me three very easy CATs I can implement right away.

Maxine Fuller posted

Maxine Fuller — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 09:03:32 -0700

I really enjoyed this workshop. It taught me that I have been using CAT's all along (just didn't know that they were called this). I teach counseling courses. Therefore, my favorite CAT's to use is the scenario ones. This allows the students to recall various aspects of their educational attainment in order to arrive at the best and most…

Nicole Lavonier posted

Nicole Lavonier — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:13:26 -0700

I recently took the Making Class Fun workshop and created CATS that are humorous and motivational to increase student partiicpation. As an instructor of education courses, I provide students with funny articles and storiesin which I have them explain what they learned. I ask questions about the articles in ways that relate to the objectives of…

David Foster posted

David Foster — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:26:52 -0700

The CATs that we like to use in Math, are a problem that is representative of the material we have been covering that week. For instance, we might ask them to factor a given polynomial. This gives them an opportunity to test their skills, and discuss with the class the things they have done right or wrong. I do try to emphasize that forums, and…

Casey Kadavy posted

Casey Kadavy — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 04:10:57 -0700

In the midst of a unit, I ask students to imagine they are creating a test on the material. I ask each studenet to generate a question (or 2!) that might appear on the test. The questions alone offer me plenty of information about how well students interpret the content. As an extension, students can actually answer their peers' test questions.

Beverly Santelli posted

Beverly Santelli — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 07:49:45 -0700

This was a great overview of not only the purpose of CATS, but how to successfully implement them in the classroom. When I first started teaching online a few years ago, I would do quite a bit of questioning techniques and class follow-ups, but I was not as intentional about formative assessment as I have been in the past year and a half with…

Loyd Ganey posted

Loyd Ganey — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:06:56 -0700

I have been using additional questions in the DQs for a long time to stimulate discussion However, I realize since taking this workshop that I need to change my CATs to be more topic specific.

Karin Johnson posted

Karin Johnson — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:15:23 -0700

This is my first 6 weeks of teaching an online course. My mentor reminded me that I was required to include CATs each week. I didn't feel I had time to create something clever, so Iai ooked at upcoming DQs regarding standards-based curriculum and came up with a simple scenario: It is the middle of the sememster and you have just hired Mr. Davis,…

Michael Saunders posted

Michael Saunders — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:04:47 -0700

Nice training, I liked it!

For me, I record video lectures and post them in the class discussion which helps deepen the learning for the Modules. The CAT I use is to ask once the student has viewed the short video (10-12 min typically), to post 1 point them took away and learned.

Kyan Ware posted

Kyan Ware — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:51:24 -0700

I teach Criminal Justice for GCU. In one of my most recent courses, I found that a conept map could be good for one of the DQ questions in my class. The question was whether technology would replace old fashion police work. The Concept Map would have allowed the students to map out the major concepts related to technology that are needed and…

Charles Brazeale posted

Charles Brazeale — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 07:16:47 -0700

I have been teaching online for GCU for almost 10 years. I have always used a Socratic questioning format in the DQs to expand the discussion and challenge students to dig deeper. I have come to realize that many CATs are designed to do the same thing, but I wasn't understanding that they were, in fact, similar to what I had been attempting to…

Katura Lesane posted

Katura Lesane — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 06:37:06 -0700

A CAT that I have found most useful, whether as a middle school or higher education instructor, is the One Sentence Summary. This is a higher order thinking CAT for the learner and provides a feedback to the instructor on students' understanding of concepts. For example, in a course on differentiation, I had a student write:

Differentiation is a…

Kimberly Brownlee posted

Kimberly Brownlee — Sat, 24 May 2014 16:42:48 -0700

I teach solely online, and I've been tweaking the CATs I've been using. Mine is a writing class, ENG 106, and while the content is closely directed for them by the curriuculum, they struggle most with finding solid academic resources upon which to build their writing.

In one week, one objective is to find aprropriate academic sources to use as…

Katie Sprute posted

Katie Sprute — Tue, 20 May 2014 14:39:14 -0700

Formative assessments are used throughout the week in the discussion forum to gauge the level of understanding my students have pertaining to the content at hand. One I frequently provide in my classroom management course, are scenarios that address specific types of problem behavior students may exhibit in the classroom. Then I ask the students…

John Steele posted

John Steele — Tue, 20 May 2014 12:03:12 -0700

The CAT I find most useful is the classroom is the KWL. The reason is that it is very adaptable from class to class or week to week and it generates lots of extra discussion. It allows me to gauge the student's prior knowledge by finding out what the student already knows. It allows for another outlet for students to ask questions about the topic…

Emily Pottinger posted

Emily Pottinger — Mon, 19 May 2014 14:11:36 -0700

Using formative assessment in an online is so essential. One thing that I always try to remind myself is to keep things simply. I have the most success with CATs that are neither cumbersome nor time consuming for both the student and instructor. Simplicity is the key. Think less is more. Don't make CATs into a self-inflicted burden or chore. This…

James Brooks posted

James Brooks — Fri, 16 May 2014 07:15:19 -0700

One of my favorite CATs comes during the last week of my course. I title it "Final Takeaways". It asks "What would you say your biggest takeaways are from this course? What specifically have you learned? Is there anything you wish we had covered more?".

I look at their answers to see if they mention the main objectives of the course and I…