CTD Spring 2015 Weekly Workshop: Assessment that supports learning
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This document discusses formative assessment and how it can support learning when used effectively. Formative assessment provides timely feedback aligned with learning goals to guide student practice. Rubrics are discussed as a form of formative assessment that can clarify expectations for students and provide targeted feedback to help them improve. The document emphasizes establishing learning outcomes and aligning assessments and instructional activities to those outcomes in order to best support student learning.
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CTD Spring 2015 Weekly Workshop: Assessment that supports learning
- 1. on target by hans_s on flickr CC-BY-ND Assessment that supports learning1 What do you notice? What do you wonder?
- 2. Peter Newbury, Ph.D. Center forTeaching Development, University of California, San Diego pnewbury@ucsd.edu @polarisdotca #ctducsd ctd.ucsd.edu CTD Weekly Workshops: Assessment that Supports Learning Unless otherwise noted, content is licensed under a Creative CommonsAttribution-Non Commercial 3.0 License. resources: ctd.ucsd.edu/programs/weekly-workshops-spring-2015/ please sign in
- 3. Scholarly approach to teaching: Learning Outcomes3 CarlWieman Science Education Initiative cwsei.ubc.ca What should students learn? learning outcomes (goals, objectives) What should students learn? What are students learning? What instructional approaches help students learn?
- 4. Learning outcomes… Assessment that supports learning4 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…” Determine the qualitative behavior of an autonomous system by means of an analysis of behavior near critical points. Sketch typical solutions by hand. (MATH 20D) 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: Learning Outcomes5 CarlWieman Science Education Initiative cwsei.ubc.ca What should students learn? learning outcomes (goals, objectives) assessment active learning, peer instruction What should students learn? What are students learning? What instructional approaches help students learn?
- 6. Vocabulary check: assessment summative assessment formative assessment Assessment that supports learning6 is that which gives a final judgment of evaluation of proficiency,such as grades or scores. (How LearningWorks, 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 LearningWorks, p. 139)
- 7. Summative assessments are aligned with learning outcomes Assessment that supports learning7 Determine the qualitative behavior of an autonomous system by means of an analysis of behavior near critical points. Sketch typical solutions by hand. (MATH 20D) Exam question: Determine the qualitative behavior of this system and sketch typical solutions. dx/dt = x dy/dt = y
- 8. Vocabulary check: assessment summative assessment formative assessment Assessment that supports learning8 is that which gives a final judgment of evaluation of proficiency,such as grades or scores. (How LearningWorks, 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 LearningWorks, p. 139)
- 9. Feedback and Practice that Enhance Learning (How Learning Works) 9 When Practice Does Not Make Perfect… Students’ writing in public policy course Assessment that supports learning 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
- 10. Feedback and Practice that Enhance Learning (How Learning Works) 10 Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback are critical to learning. [3] Assessment that supports learning Music by Piulet on flickr CCExcellent Shot byVarsity Life on flickr CC
- 11. Feedback and Practice that Enhance Learning (How Learning Works) 11 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] Assessment that supports learning
- 12. Feedback and Practice that Enhance Learning (How Learning Works) 12 Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback are critical to learning. [3] practice is goal-directed productive practice timely feedback feedback at appropriate level Assessment that supports learning
- 13. Scenarios Assessment that supports learning13 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 atAppropriate Level Feedback not atAppropriate Levelsport/hobbyteachingandlearning Assessment that supports learning14
- 15. Productive Practice Unproductive Practicesport/hobbyteachingandlearning Assessment that supports learning15
- 16. Practice Goal-directed Practice not Goal-directedsport/hobbyteachingandlearning Assessment that supports learning16
- 17. Timely Feedback Untimely Feedbacksport/hobbyteachingandlearning Assessment that supports learning17
- 18. Assessment that supports learning18 What kind of assessment gives timely feedback at an appropriate level to support goal-directed and productive practice?
- 19. Assessment that supports learning19 Wait, what is this called again? A) a rubric B) a grading scheme C) a marking scheme D) I have another name for it
- 20. 20 In your opinion, this grading scheme is A) a summative assessment B) a formative assessment C) neither D) both Assessment that supports learning
- 21. Assessment that supports learning21
- 22. Assessment that supports learning RobertTalbert tinyurl.com/RobertTalbertRubric22 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 23 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.) Assessment that supports learning
- 24. Recall “How People Learn” Assessment that supports learning24 Key Finding A“metacognitive”approach to instruction can help students learn to take control of their own learning by defining learning goals and monitoring their progress in achieving them. Implications for teaching The teaching of metacognitive skills should be integrated into the curriculum in a variety of subject areas. Classroom Environments Formative assessments — ongoing assessments designed to make students’thinking visible to both teachers and students — are essential.
- 25. Big picture for course design Assessment that supports learning25 CarlWieman Science Education Initiative cwsei.ubc.ca What should students learn? What should 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, assessments (both formative and summative) and instructional activities.
- 26. References Assessment26 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 LearningWorks. San Fransisco: Jossey- Bass.