Featured Resource: Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion — Resources Available on Stereotype Threat, Implicit Bias, and Classroom Climate

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Jerry Kang, Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion recently shared that  the new EDI website is now live at equity.ucla.edu.  Within the “Educational Materials” menu item are some great resources on stereotype threat, implicit bias, and classroom climate. In particular, there are a few videos of Jerry Kang speaking about implicit bias, which provide an excellent introduction and review of these important topics. Please check out these great resources and the new EDI website!

Learning Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty

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Published by WILEY

Elizabeth F. Barkley is the author of several widely used books on active learning in the classroom including Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty (Jossey-Bass, 2010) and Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty (Jossey-Bass, 2004) co-authored with Claire Howell Major and K. Patricia Cross. Learning Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty, another collaboration between Barkley and Major, has just been published this January 2016 and provides 50 easy-to-implement active learning techniques that embed assessment strategies based on Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning to  gauge student learning in the classroom. You may order directly from the publisher. This title is also available from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.