Using CATs in Online Courses

First Online CATs

• Which CATs are commonly used?
  • Angelo & Cross suggest the following CATS as easy for teachers new to this process:
    • The Muddiest Point
    • The Minute Paper
    • The One-Sentence Summary
• Interesting Note:
  • In a 2003 professional development course related to online learning, students were asked to research CATs and choose two to apply to teaching their own online courses.
    
    See what they chose.
    
    
• The next few pages will walk through popular CATs with overviews and examples:
  • The Muddiest Point
  • The Minute Paper
  • The One-Sentence Summary
  • What's the Principle?
  • The Background Knowledge Probe
  • Student-generated Test Questions