Facilitator: Baris Gunersel, TLC Assistant Director

The educational value of writing in all disciplines has been demonstrated. In order to develop effective writing assignments, it is important that we purposefully require cognitive processes that foster meaningful learning. This workshop will focus on the Cognitive Process Dimension of the revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy (Anderson et. al., 2001) and how it can be used in assignment design. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to analyze their own assignments from this perspective and see examples from a project funded by the National Science Foundation. Workshop participants are asked to bring a writing assignment or an essay exam question, along with one or two students’ written responses to the assignment.