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Learning 2.0 Fresh Questions for Educational Assessment

Prologue: The Wikipedia Debate

Individual / Certified On-Going / Disclaimers and Discussions Community / Anonymous One-Off / Definitive Continuous / Instantaneous Virtually None / Time-Lagged Conversation / Collaboration Critical Credentials / Teamplay Ignored Source of Knowledge ‘ Shape’ of Knowledge Correction Authority

If the nature of knowledge is shifting, what about the assessment of knowledge?

Conventional Teaching Learner-Centered Teaching 1. 2.

Conventional Assessment Learner-Centered Assessment 1. 2.

“ Learner-centered education means that the students are active participants in learning and co-constructors of knowledge ” (Meece, 2003)

No longer ‘teaching’ and ‘assessment’, but learning tasks

Learning Tasks...
Relates authentically (directly) to learning objectives i.e. minimal separation of ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’
Engages students i.e. nurtures participation and involvement
Focuses on task completion not group ranking

Learning Tasks...
Elicits student’s unique understanding or handling of situation
Develops higher skills along Bloom’s taxonomy
Stimulates reflection on learning process and encourages meaning-making

Bloom’s Taxonomy : Cognitive Domain Diploma Bachelor Post-Grad

In 2001, there was a revision to Bloom’s…

Learning is creating meaning and knowledge forms

Learning Tasks may also be...
Designed by students themselves
Multi-disciplinary
Peer-to-peer assessed
Technological enable and enabling
Online

Online Discussions 30% Team Assignments (incl. Peer-2-Peer) 20% Individual Assignments 25% Final 24-hr, ‘ Open Book’ Exam 25%

Our Second Life project assessment consisted of reflection essays, chat transcripts, peer evaluations , and a post-project survey that measures the learning motive, attitudes, level of difficulty, and the time used to complete the project. (Schiller, 2009)

Examples
Language
Compose a text for a brochure which covers selected themes
Put the brochure online and get other students to post feedback
History
Make a video about WW2 using
Biology
Produce a high-resolution graphic of insects’ digestive systems
Create a new kind of flower?

Examples
Science
Find a scene from a movie and 1) highlight the scientific problems 2) discuss possible real-world applications
E.g. Spiderman, Matrix, Batman
Human Geography
Interview selected people (police, shop-owners, etc.) about BERSIH
Physical Geography
Start a garden, plant at least 3 varieties of plants, produce a portfolio at end of semester

Exercise! Design Learning Tasks (give hand-outs)

Design a Learning Task
List down learning objectives
Review ‘learning task’ criteria
Design learning tasks which meet at least 4-5 criteria

Pop-Quiz!

Please exchange papers? 

RM350 million allocated to boost efforts to cut down crime index, and establish 25 special courts to expedite prosecution

RM29.3 billion allocated for Education Ministry and RM10.2 billion for Higher Education Ministry

To increase PhD qualified academic staff to 75% in research universities and 60% in other public institutions of higher learning

How can we improve our feedback to learners?

Assessments can be categorised in a few ways…

Analytical / Objective / Efficient Marking

Global / Impressionistic / ‘Subjective’ Holistic Marking

Formal Assessment

Informal Assessment

Formative Assessment

Summative Assessment

Norm- Referenced

Criterion-Referenced

Examples of Rubrics

In Summary…

Traditional Emerging Preparing students for professorship / De-contextualised Training students for real-world action Lower Order Thinking Higher Order Skills Teacher-Assessed Peer-Assessed Individual Collaborative Conformity expected Creativity demanded

“ Less” More! Negative Comments Corrective / Constructive Comments Analytical Global / Holistic Norm-Referenced Criterion-Referenced / Rubrics Summative Assessment Formative (Timely) Assessments

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