Adaptive Learning Assessment
Is there a way for you to include diagnostic assessment in your course?
An instructor has the ability to alter their course based on the assessment data provided. Adjustments can be made in a formative and summative way as well as individualized curriculum changes. All assessments should have some type of mastery(summative) to provide overall content knowledge and critical thinking skills. All of these should be connected to the course learning outcomes.
at the end of each class our students have a hands on lab final to complete, failing the hands on could cause them to fail the course. we have to be sure they have the skills needed to continue.
I am a big fan of crafting diagnostic assessments for courses. With the rollout of our latest revisions to our curriculum, we have implemented, in addition to the formative didactic style assessment, performance-based formatives for our learning. Students are expected to demonstrate key skills they should know, such as whether they can stop and start a Windows service from the command line, properly install a system processor or RAM using proper ESD techniques, or connectorize RJ-45 according to EIA/TIA-568A/B standard.
The AL systems that I have seen to date fall short of doing this well, but they are improving. AL systems involved in skill-based diagnostic, formative, or summative assessment are still very much simulation based and cannot replicate all the nuances fully. But diagnostic assessment on the didactic side make good opportunities to measuring student outcome.
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