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1 Assessing Learning Dr. Victoria L. Clegg Spring 2009

2 Assessment and Evaluation  Data-gathering strategies, analyses, and reporting processes that provide information that can be used to determine whether or not intended outcomes are being achieved.  Using assessment results to support decisions on maintaining, changing, or discarding instructional practices … or to support decisions about learners.

3 Three Basic Questions  What do I want the students to learn?  How will I know when they have learned?  How will I facilitate the students’ learning?

4 Before writing SLOs, think about:  What information or content do you want students to learn?  What do you want them to do with that information?  What skills or competencies do you want them to learn or develop?  What kinds of higher level thinking do you want them to engage in?

5 Before writing SLOs, think about:  How do you think they will use the information and skills?  If someone asks the students what they have learned, how do you want them to answer?  How do you expect students to demonstrate what they have learned and how well they have learned it?

6 1.What is the purpose of the assessment?

7 2.What constraints must be considered?

8 3.What learning processes are involved?

9 4.What emphasis should each topic and level of learning be given? Table of Specifications LEVELS OF LEARNING TOPICSApplyingAnalyzingEvaluating A10%-- B 30%10% C--20%30%

10 Four basic types of assessment:  “Paper-and-pencil”  Performance  Oral  Portfolios Susan M. Brookhart Duquesne University

11 Three kinds of feedback  Objective  Subjective  Descriptive feedback Susan M. Brookhart Duquesne University

12 CATL Library – Example Resources  Alternative Strategies for Evaluating Student Learning in New Directions for Teaching and Learning  Classroom Assessment Techniques by Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross  Teaching & Learning in College edited by Gary S. Wheeler  Effective Grading by Barbara Walvoord and Virginia Johnson Anderson  Assessment for Excellence by Alexander Astin


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