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Title: Designing%20Assessments%20into%20Activities%20that%20Meet%20Learning%20Goals


1
Designing Assessments into Activities that Meet
Learning Goals
  • Michelle Hall-Wallace

2
Think
  • Spend 2 minutes writing the questions or concerns
    you have about assessment. These questions could
    be related to your classroom teaching or your
    online resources.

3
Questions/Concerns
  • What do we we want to assess--role of goals?
  • Why assess at all? Who benefits? For planning? To
    give grades?
  • To get input from students and others to guide
    design/redesign (Are they doing what we think
    they are doing?)
  • Where are the human resources for
    assessment--faculty time issues?

4
Questions/Concerns
  • How to separate assessing of CT from content
  • How to move assessment from artificial or
    punitive to an authentic tool for learning
  • Role of summative and formative assessment
  • Strategies for assessing on the web (distance
    learning concern)

5
Good Assessment Depends on
  • Clear goals
  • Creative approaches
  • An emphasis on reinforcing learning rather than
    separating the wheat from the chaff

6
Formative Assessments - Part of the Learning
Process
  • to give students feedback
  • to guide student effort
  • to diagnose problems in learning
  • to encourage students
  • to give students experience with diverse
    assessment methods
  • to help direct the teaching effort

7
Summative Assessment - Measure Performance
  • to discriminate between students
  • to provide quality assurance checks both within
    the institution and externally
  • to motivate students
  • to judge student progression
  • to award marks and enable a final degree
    classification

8
Guiding Questions for Resource Design
  • What is worthy and requiring of understanding?
  • What is evidence of understanding?
  • What learning experiences and teaching promote
    understanding, interest and excellence?

9
Guiding Questions for Assessment Design
  • Are students learning what you expect?
  • Are they learning it in ways (using the methods)
    that you like?

10
Creative Assessment
  • Knowledge (terms, principles, procedures)
  • List the evidence for plate tectonics
  • Comprehension (understanding terms and
    principles interpretation)
  • Summarize the evidence for and against the
    expanding Earth theory
  • Which of these examples represents the principle
    of
  • Application (solving problems, applying concepts
    and principles to new situations)
  • Assuming Airy isostasy, calculate the elevation
    of the continent in the given model.
  • Predict an outcome

11
Creative Assessment (cont.)
  • Analysis (recognition of facts, inferences,
    unstated assumptions, logical fallacies)
  • What are the facts supporting Wegners hypothesis
    for continental drift and what are the underlying
    assumptions?
  • Synthesis (integrate learning from different
    areas or solve problems with creative thinking)
  • Design a monitoring system for geologic hazards
    in the Seattle area.
  • Evaluate (judging or assessing)
  • Evaluate the evacuation plan for Seattle assuming
    that flooding will be associated with the next
    major earthquake or volcanic eruption.

12
How are Online Assessments Different?
  • Allows for test-study-retest - promote mastery
  • Can be done outside the classroom setting
  • Allow for animations, dynamic model analysis,
    color imagery
  • Rapid feedback with guidance on reading or
    problem sets to remediate gaps
  • Motivation and reinforcement
  • Can be embedded throughout the learning
    experience
  • Requires access to technology
  • Provides data for analysis of resource and
    assessments

13
In small groups of 7
  • Describe your most creative / effective or best
    assessment strategy. Explain why it is your best.
  • How can this type of assessment strategy be used
    with online resources?
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