As part of Professional Development Day on Feb. 11, the Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation is offering a Learn at Lunch event, "PENCIL Cases: Elevating Critical Thinking Through Case-Study Scaffolding and Assessment."
When: Wednesday, Feb. 11, 12:45 p.m.–2 p.m.
Where: CTEI Library
Lunch provided.
Case studies rarely have a single correct answer, and that’s what makes evaluating them challenging. In this Learn at Lunch session, participants will explore the PENCIL rubric, a structured tool that supports fair, consistent, and quantitative assessment of case-study responses. You’ll learn how the framework scaffolds reasoning, emphasizes patient assessment over “the answer,” and helps educators provide more transparent, defensible feedback to learners. This rubric has been created for clinical reasoning but will also adapt easily to other disciplines that use case-study methodologies.
Questions? Contact Lindi Mitsou at mitsou@hartford.edu.
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