CTD Fa14 Weekly Workshop: Assessment that supports learning
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What do you notice? What do you wonder?
2. CTD Weekly Workshops: Assessment that Supports Learning
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Peter Newbury, Ph.D. Center for Teaching Development, University of California, San Diego
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resources: ctd.ucsd.edu/programs/weekly-workshops-fall-2014/
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November 5, 2014
3. Scholarly approach to teaching:
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Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative cwsei.ubc.ca
What should students learn?
learning
outcomes
What students learn?
What are students learning?
What instructional approaches help students learn?
4. Learning outcomes…
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clarify to the students and to the instructors the what it means to “understand” each concept
are statements that complete the sentence, “By this end of this lesson/unit/course, you will be able to…”
begins with an action verb, typically chosen by the cognitive Bloom’s Level of the outcome (remember, comprehend, apply, analyze, evaluate, create)
5. Scholarly approach to teaching:
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What should students learn?
learning
outcomes
how people learn, alternatives to lecture
What students learn?
What are students learning?
What instructional approaches help students learn?
6. We know How People Learn
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…and what it means for teaching[1]:
1.Teachers must draw out and work with the pre- existing understanding that their students bring with them. Classrooms must be learner centered.
2.Teachers must teach some subject matter in depth, providing many examples in which the same concept is at work, providing a foundation of factual knowledge.
3.The teaching of metacognitive skills (“thinking about thinking”) should be integrated into the curriculum.
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What should students learn?
learning
outcomes
assessment
What students learn?
What are students learning?
What instructional approaches help students learn?
how people learn, alternatives to lecture
8. Vocabulary check: assessment
summative assessment
formative assessment
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is that which gives a final judgment of evaluation of proficiency, such as grades or scores.
(How Learning Works, p. 139)
explicitly communicates to students about some specific aspects of their performance relative to specific target criteria, and … provides information that helps students progress toward meeting those criteria…[It] informs students’ subsequent learning.
(How Learning Works, p. 139)
9. Feedback and Practice that Enhance Learning (How Learning Works)
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When Practice Does Not Make Perfect… Students’ writing in public policy course
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The instructors don’t recognize their own expertize, fail to give useful practice and feedback.
expert blindness
curse of knowledge
They Just Do Not Listen! Students’ presentations in medical anthropology course
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Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback are critical to learning. [3]
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Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback are critical to learning. [3]
Goals can direct the nature of focused practice, provide the basis for evaluating observed performance, and shape the targeted feedback that guides students’ future efforts.
[p. 127]
Targeted feedback gives students prioritized information about how their performance does or does not meet the criteria so they can understand how to improve their future performance.
[p. 141]
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Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback are critical to learning. [3]
practice is goal-directed
productive practice
timely feedback
feedback at appropriate level
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13. Scenarios
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feedback at
appropriate level
feedback not at appropriate level
productive practice
unproductive practice
practice is goal-directed
practice not goal-directed
timely feedback
untimely feedback
In a moment but not yet, find 2 or 3 others with the same colored sheet as you. Together, think of examples/scenarios of both contrasting cases, in sports/hobbies and in teaching and learning.
14. Feedback at Appropriate Level
Feedback not at Appropriate Level
sport/hobby
teaching and learning
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17. Timely Feedback
Untimely Feedback
sport/hobby
teaching and learning
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What kind of assessment gives timely feedback at an appropriate level to support goal-directed and productive practice?
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In your opinion, this grading scheme is
A)a summative assessment
B)a formative assessment
C)neither
D)both
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21. Assessment that supports learning
Robert Talbert tinyurl.com/RobertTalbertRubric
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components of project
summative assessment
descriptions so students know where they are (helps with grading, too) and how to get better
23. Rubric = path to improvement
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goal-directed
Goals can direct the nature of focused practice, provide the basis for evaluating observed performance, and shape the targeted feedback that guides students’ future efforts.
targeted feedback
Targeted feedback gives students prioritized information about how their performance does or does not meet the criteria so they can understand how to improve their future performance.
Students need to be aware of the rubric (and using it) throughout the assignment/project (that is, not just a grading scheme at the end.)
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24. Big picture for course design
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Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative cwsei.ubc.ca
What should students learn?
What students learn?
What are students learning?
What instructional approaches help students learn?
Design each activity, each class, and your entire course by establishing and aligning the learning outcomes, instructional activities, and assessments (both formative and summative.)
25. References
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1.National Research Council (2000). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition. J.D. Bransford, A.L Brown & R.R. Cocking (Eds.), Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
2.Ambrose, S.A., Bridges, M.W., DiPietro, M., Lovett, M.C., & Norman, M.K. (2010). How Learning Works. San Fransisco: Jossey- Bass.