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A Good IDEA for Learning
Ever walked out of class with that elated feeling where you just know you taught a good class? Perhaps a student or two even said something to you afterward or paid you the supreme accolade with the text “U dun good.” But did you? And while your students might have felt euphoric afterward, did they learn anything? And, more importantly, can you prove it? By way of background, most of us know the Nosich (2001) strategy of how to introduce a “fundamental and powerful concept” (Learning to Think Things Through, Upper Saddle River, NY: Pearson, 40). S-E-E-I (sometimes called the SEE-ing I)...
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Focused Listing
The purpose of this tip is to help instructors determine what students are able to recall for the main points of a lesson. The preparation and follow-up for a Focused Listing activity is minimal, but can inform the instructor on what the students recall from the lesson. The instructor begins this activity by setting a limit for either number of points to make (5 to 10) or limit the amount of time (3 to 5 minutes) to list the points. Next the instructor writes down the main points of the lesson in allotted time. The instructor will need to follow the requirement and determine if any...
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Four Typical Online Learning Assessment Mistakes
By Patti Shank, Ph.D, CPT http://www.learningpeaks.com Adapted and reprinted with permission from "Faculty Focus", Magna Publications http://www.facultyfocus.com/ The goal of learning assessments should be to measure whether actual learning outcomes match desired learning outcomes. We measure whether instruction “works” by seeing if the instruction we build actually helps people achieve the learning objectives. I’d even argue that we cannot be considered competent builders of instruction if we can’t show that what we built helps learners learn. People who build instruction make some typical...
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Nine Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning
Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning The assessment of student learning begins with educational values. Assessment is not an end in itself but a vehicle for educational improvement. Its effective practice, then, begins with and enacts a vision of the kinds of learning we most value for students and strive to help them achieve. Educational values should drive not only what we choose to assess but also how we do so. Where questions about educational mission and values are skipped over, assessment threatens to be an exercise in measuring what's easy, rather than a process...
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Student Learning Styles
Help your students asses their own learning and increase their learning effectiveness by finding out more about their own learning styles. Visit these resources to find out more. Index of Learning Styles This site has some interesting information on learning styles although the results page from the questionnaire is tough to read. Abiator's Online Learning Styles Inventory This Web site has several tests and tips for students on Learning Styles, Analytical/Global Thinker, and Multiple Intelligences. Best Educational E-Practices (BEEP) Project Eagle a St. Petersburg College is focused on the...
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Top Ten Tips for Assessing Student Performance
Clearly communicate your expectations in multiple venues well ahead of the due dates for exams and assignments. Provide clear rubrics that illustrate how the work will be assessed. Provide examples of excellent, mediocre and unsatisfactory work, so standards are clear. Assess often, even if such "dip-sticking" is merely for preview or review; this helps monitor student understanding and informs the instructor's course design and pacing. Assess the process and not only the product. Certain skills related to research, media projects, writing, and scientific research are often overlooked in...
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