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TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT
1. Humor and Multimedia as Teaching Tools for the Net Generation
- Defines the components of teaching
- Describes the characteristics of the Net Geners and their world
- Presents a case for tapping 4–6 multiple intelligences and
learning styles
- Illustrates how to leverage music, videos, and games for teaching
- Emphasizes functions of humor as a systematic
teaching tool
- Identifies 7 forms of offensive humor to be avoided
- Summarizes 70+ studies over 45 years of research on humor and
laughter
- Illustrates cognitive relationship between humor and
problem-based learning (PBL)
- Creates several classroom demonstrations with music to
apply Multiple Intelligence Theory (MIT)
2. Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator 
- Surveys 10 basic low-, moderate-, and high-risk humor strategies
- Emphasizes functions of humor as a systematic
teaching tool
- Identifies 7 forms of offensive humor to be avoided
- Summarizes 70+ studies over 45 years of research on humor and
laughter
- Illustrates cognitive relationship between humor and
problem-based learning (PBL)
- Creates classroom demonstrations with music to
apply Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory (MIT)
- Presents hilarious applications of humor incongruity
formula, including top 10 lists, M-C items,
anecdotes, cartoons, wedding invitations, and
parking tickets
3. The 7 Humorous Habits of Highly Effective Professors
- Similar to 1 above, but with coverage of only 7 strategies
4. Creating TV, Movie, and Broadway Parodies to Hook
Students on New Topics
- Presents 6-step process to create parodies in class
- Reviews research base, especially MIT
- Demonstrates how to link parodies to class openings,
topics, introductions, and generic concepts
- Models several parodies, such as Mission:
Impossible, Odd Couple, Masterpiece Theatre,
and Titanic
- Provides interactive opportunity for participants to
create and perform parodies in session
5. Transforming Your Course into an Adult Version of
Sesame Street
- Presents 4-step process for creating demonstrations
involving other faculty and students
- Reviews research on visual imagery, music and
learning, and MIT
- Applies music and demonstrations to learning
theories, processes, and concepts
- Models several demos with participants
- Provides interactive opportunity for participants to
create and perform demos in session
6. Professor Search: So You Want to Be a Star!
- Describes 10 techniques for using appropriate humor
to punch up any serious presentation, even research reports
- Models how to inject music, commercial breaks, and demonstrations
- Presents low-risk humor strategies that go beyond the
opening-joke, 60-minute, boring speech
- Provides interactive opportunity for participants to
punch up their presentations
7. Top 10 Secret Tips for Successful Humor in the
Classroom
- Presents the key factors that determine the success
of any type of humor
- Draws on humor research, secrets of stand-up
comedians, and hard-knocks experience
- Suggests how to diagnose why your humor bombs
- Provides interactive opportunity for participants to
improve their classroom atmosphere and structure
to facilitate humor
8. Infusing Humor in Your Course Website:
www.hilariouscourse/yeahright
- Describes 10 strategies for incorporating print,
audio, and graphic humor on any Website
- Extends in-class methods to the Web
- Provides interactive opportunity for participants to
write humorous lists, acronyms, and emoticons
9. Injecting Jest into Your Course Tests to Reduce Test Anxiety
- Presents 8 methods for using humor in
multiple-choice, matching, and
constructed-response items
- Surveys latest research on humor effects on test
anxiety and performance
- Provides interactive opportunity for participants to
create humorous distracters from M-C items
1. Humor as a Coping Strategy for the Stressors of Academe 
- Pinpoints stressors in academe
- Examines coping strategies recommended in research
- Reviews humor research on stress reduction
- Administers Coping Humor Scale
- Suggests specific humor techniques to reduce stress
2. Determining Your Purpose in an Academic Career
- Demonstrates how to conduct a self-assessment of your professional and personal attributes
- Illustrates how to evaluate the characteristics of your job or career choice
- Suggests several strategies for completing those assessments
- Evaluates the final match between attributes and job requirements
3. Top 14 Strategies to Measure Teaching Effectiveness
- Critiques 14 different sources of evidence (student rating scales to teaching portfolios)
- Suggests “how to measure” each
- Specifies “who provides the info”
- Indicates “who uses the essential evidence”
- Identifies the “types of decisions” for each source
4. Developing Rating Scales for Evaluation Decisions/Accreditation
- Presents step-by-step procedure for constructing:
- student rating scales
- peer observation scales
- administrator evaluation scales
- employer rating scales (of graduates)
- Suggests evaluation applications for using data from
these scales
5. Weighing the Pluses and Minuses of Online Administration of Student Rating Scales
- Compares paper-based with online administration in terms of 15 criteria
- Examines major issues in online administration
- response rates
- standardization
- accessibility/convenience
- anonymity/confidentiality
- costs
- Reviews research on comparability of ratings
6. Crouching Professor, Hidden Peer Evaluator
- Presents rationale for considering a peer review
system
- Outlines steps for designing the system
- Discusses how to execute the system
- Weighs formative vs. summative arguments
- Suggests methods to integrate peer data with student
ratings and teaching portfolio (triangulation)
7. Accruing Dividends from Your Teaching Portfolio
- Examines the value of the portfolio on promotion/tenure
decisions
- Presents a laundry list of possible elements
- Suggests methods to integrate portfolio with student
ratings and peer review (triangulation)
8. Mentorpiece Theatre
- Defines mentorship
- Presents tools for describing and measuring the
effectiveness of a mentoring relationship
- Provides interactive opportunity to discuss the
meaning of mentoring and critique the tools
TESTING AND ASSESSMENT
1. Top 15 Complaints by Students about Taking Tests (with suggested solutions)
- Lists the most frequent complaints by 1500 students over past decade
- Elicits faculty reaction and solutions to those complaints
- Suggests solutions based on “best testing practices”
2. Top 10 Flaws in Constructing Multiple-Choice Items
- Begins with a 10-item pretest of participants ability
to pick out item flaws
- Presents 10 most common item-writing flaws
(out of 43) that testwise students will detect
- Participants adjust pretest answers
- Discusses each item with participants as the answer
is provided
3. Beyond Multiple Choice: Alternative Forms of Assessment
- Describes use of student/teacher portfolio for
assessment
- Examines a variety of constructed-response item
formats
4. No Child Left Untested
- Presents impact of NCLB on classroom testing
5. No Teacher Left Untested
- Presents impact of NCLB on teacher
licensure/certification requirements
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