Module 2: Topic-Specific Expansion
The advanced module (42 credit hours) builds on the foundational knowledge acquired in a subject-specific manner and expands upon it in a targeted way. Key components of this module are the topics of “counseling” and “assessment,” which play a central role in the context of institutional conditions at universities. Exams are planned as examples and their functioning discussed, and the basic forms of conversation are explained and applied. An additional, self-selected workshop allows for individual thematic expansion.
- Workshop: Conducting Conversations with Students (E) (14 credit hours)
- Workshop: Examinations (D) (12 credit hours)
- Self-selected workshop from the open workshop program (16 credit hours)
Structuring conversations with students
Objectives:
Participants
- develop their own approach to conversation and counseling,
- gain insight into fundamental conversational techniques and apply them,
- are able to structure conversations with students as learning opportunities.
Examine
Objectives:
Participants will be able to
- professionally prepare, plan, and conduct examinations,
- apply the taxonomy of learning objectives to examinations and construct precise exam questions aligned with those objectives,
- distinguish between and combine assessment methods and grading criteria,
- identify potential sources of error in assessment,
- determine appropriate responses to critical situations (e.g., cheating, exam anxiety).