Hi Timothy- Thanks for your post to the forum! Your team is using assessments that are definitely appropriate for the culinary field.
Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
The criteria is set up by our lead instructor which we use several testing formats.
Performance testing, objective testing, and skill application testing. In the culinary field I believe it is good practice to use several types especially in a kitchen Lab. This gives all student an opportunity to be successful.
Our tests and methods are chosen for us. we test with a written and Hands on test, so the student has to have knowledge AND application skills.
It is best to understand the type of learners you have in your class to develop the best format to quiz the student's knowledge and application of skill being taught.
Hi Farida- Thanks for your post to the forum. You are doing a gteat job at choosing appropriate assessments! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
I base my test format depending on the content material. If I am looking to see if students can apply what they learned, I would assign an essay. If I am looking to see if they comprehend the terminology, I would assign multiple choice or True and False.
Hi Jerry - Thanks for your post to the forum which gave us some good examples of how to choose appropraite assessments. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Subject matter of the course as well as the learning styles of the students and the availablity of resources to help create the tests
The course can dictate the type of testing format, but overall goal should be kept in mind. For example: a medical tech should have skill application - but a health care manager needs to demostrate problem solving skills - an essay approach may be beneficial.
the level of the students, time, grading and the ability to check for knowledge
being that we teach hand on skills, a pratical exam best suit my testing format.
Hi Patricia- Thanks for your post to the forum! Although critics sometimes call this "teaching to the test" I agree that when we know we must use standardized tests ,it is only fair to our students that we make sure that what we teach will be what they are tested on. Best wishes! Susan
It all depends on what you want the student to have learned. You want tests to show what students learned and remember. Any type of test works its just that certain tests work better for certain accomplishments. For example skills test show the instructor they have learned to perform a skill. When I get access to ready made tests I try to build my power points presentations or my lectures around the materials that are being asked in the test. I'm not in favor of this only because I find that I would ask different questions. It does help though when you have large classes and not much time.
Hi Amy - Thanks for your post to the forum. You are using a nice mix of assessment types. What do you teach? Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Since my teaching area is in the area of general education, I tend to use most of the assessment strategies discussed in this module, except for true-false questions, depending upon the nature of the content and/or the strategies we are using in the material. I have never used true-false questions - and I am sure that if I thought about it I could come up with some viable reasons, but I just don't like them.
i tend to stick with skill assessment and knowledge retention
The criteria that I use is multifold. I use some that are standardized as they make more sense to me than the way I would write it. I also use test questions others have writen as they are questions I did not think of to use. I use verious types of questions as well, multiple-cohice, short answer, true/false and completion. I do not use essay questions as they do not seem to work for my classes.
I like to use a variety of questions for testing my students. I usually use a combination of multiple choice, true false, matching occationally, fill in the blank, short answer
That's great Richard - all that practicing really pays off! Best wishes- Susan
Yes and no. Depending on the student. More than not, the students feel quite at ease as we see them work with the patients. Becasue they have the basic skills already accomplished, they can converse more with the patient and that works out best for both patient and student.
