Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED): Assessment, Curriculum & Instructional Design

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynne P Cooper PhD, Vanderbilt University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

professional manner.Providing students opportunities for self-advocacy in the classroom can be challenging. In theacademic setting, seeking feedback sometimes devolves into the student arguing over pointdeductions on an assignment. The use of detailed rubrics, especially for subjectively gradedassignments can prevent grade haggling – and they also provide a valuable lesson in theimportance of understanding expectations. Professors can mimic supervisors by requiringstudents to interact to clarify expectations and by setting up peer review situations to provideexperience in both getting and receiving feedback. They can also establish professional standardsof behavior such as students providing advance notice of absences, including relevantinformation in