TLA Mini-Grants
TLA Mini-Grants promote student learning by supporting, recognizing, and sharing small-scale assessment projects in courses and co-curricular learning experiences.
Application due date
Application are no longer being accepted (due date was April 21)
Report due date: May 22, 2017
Mini-Grant Report Template
Submit TLA Mini-Grant Reports by the above deadline to tla@csumb.edu. Please use the above template. We will not be able to fund projects if reports are incomplete or submitted past the deadline.
Description
Eligibility: Full- and part-time lecturers and tenure-line faculty.
Purpose: Promote student learning by supporting, recognizing, and sharing small-scale assessment projects in courses and co-curricular learning experiences.
Description: TLA will provide small grants of $200 for completing and reporting on small-scale assessment projects (see Learning Assessment Techniques for examples).
Recognition: Exemplary projects will shared with the CSUMB community (with permission of grantees).
Resources
- Overview of Learning Assessment Techniques (TLA Teaching Cooperative PowerPoint)
- Learning Assessment Techniques by Barkley and Major (CSUMB Library ebook)
Also recommended
- Collaborative Learning Techniques by Barkley, Major and Cross (CSUMB Library eBook)
- Student Engagement Techniques by Barkley (CSUMB Library eBook)
- Engaging Ideas by Bean (CSUMB Library eBook)
- TLA Assessment Support Website
For support responding to application prompts, see "Overview of Learning Assessment Techniques" and/or contact TLA Director Dan Shapiro at dshapiro@csumb.edu
Applicants will be notified of acceptance by April 28th. If more applications are received than can be funded, priority will go to applications that are most thorough, creative, and aligned with Barkley and Majors' Learning Assessment Techniques framework.