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- 1. FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: BEYOND RIGHT AND WRONG ANSWERS Heather Johnson, MLIS Research and Education Librarian Biomedical Libraries, Dartmouth College
- 2. Evaluation of student comprehension, learning needs, and academic progress during a lesson What is formative assessment?
- 3. Allows instructors to modify lessons, reinforce concepts, offer more information, and clarify information Why formative assessment?
- 4. Health Careers Institute at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice Formative assessment in action
- 5. Learning Objectives and Activities At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: Evaluate six resources (Wikipedia, MedlinePlus, UpToDate, PubMed Health, Google, or Google Scholar) Explain one source to a group of classmates Work with a group to create three or four trivia questions about their assigned source.
- 7. Reinforce Concepts Student Answer A starting place, NOT a middle or ending place
- 8. Reinforce Concepts Student Answer Options: - Journal Articles - Clinical Trials - Videos - News Articles
- 10. Reinforce Concepts Student Answer Lock: An article that requires review… and cannot be edited Plus: a good article Star: a great article
- 12. Offer More Information Student Answer Click on the gear- top right corner and limit to - .org & .gov - Country - Specific phrases
- 13. Offer More Information Student Answer The governmen t and non- profits
- 14. Offer More Information Student Answer Ex: first last site:facebo ok.com
- 15. Offer More Information Student Answer Searches take into account personal search history
- 19. Made sure they left with the right facts, and with everything I wanted them to know • Learned what students had a firm grasp on • Offered more information on topics they seemed to grapple with • Elucidated misconceptions Again! Why formative assessment?
- 20. THANK YOU!
Editor's Notes
- Contract with summative assessment
- Describe the class 26 students High school aged One-hour, one-shot session Designed to expose students to health resources for their end-of-week project Moved fast / no choice but to be engaged
- Students generated the questions and answered them Six groups of students 4-5 students of groups Jigsaw Create questions
- YES! This is what you use Wikipedia for!
- This also provided a teaching opportunity. I reminded them that MedlinePlus offers information on 975 health topics, and in addition to journal articles and clinical trials, they could also find basic information on many health topics.
- Reminded students that they don’t have to assess credibility– that the NLM has done that for them. Created a dialogue about what makes sources credible
- Students are going to use Wikipedia, so it’s best to teach them which articles they can trust, even if they’re using the source only as an introduction to concepts
- Teaching Opportunity: Allowed me to reinforce why they should be using Wikipedia– as an introduction to concepts and terms. Also reminded them that they need to cite their sources to avoid plagiarism Contextualize the question– based on conversations with students, they meant, reading a Wikipedia article without reading the sources– just reading the article and not looking at the sources
- Teaching Opportunity: Also told students that they could filter by: File type Language Where their search terms appear Date of last update Also reminded students that they could exclude words and search for exact phrases
- This was an opportunity to indicate that MedlinePlus pulls information from over 1,000 organizations based on a set of quality guidelines Examples of quality guidelines: MedlinePlus gives preference to pages with no advertising Information is updated Information is appropriate to the audience level, well-organized, and easy to use
- Opportunity to plug other sources they may consider using for their projects Example: “West Nile”site:cdc.gov
- Teaching Opportunity: While this information is correct, I was able to reinforce the way the Google algorithm works: that it sorts websites based on popularity, not necessarily on authority
- Teaching opportunity: Ask students what those credible sources are. Case law, articles, patents, citations
- Teaching opportunity: The average Wikipedia is no more or less accurate than the Encyclopedia Britannica. This is why it’s important to use Wikipedia AND encyclopedias as a starting place, not an end point.
- Students thought it was creepy Teaching Opportunity: In this particular session, students believed that “patient information” meant information ABOUT patients rather than information for patients.