Student Learning Assessment | Origin: ED103
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CATs are a great way to evaluate where a student stands. We can then build off of their existing knowledge and skill level.
Evaluating students and our teaching methods are very important to promoting the best way to teach. Both reliability and validity of our assessments should in turn create opportunities to help our students become the best.
In this module, I have learned the different methods for general education assessment that can be done in the classroom. I definitly will apply some of methods in my classroom.
I teach chemistry and we work many problems in class. When a student has trouble with solving a problem, I plan to use more questioning to lead the student to solving the problem rather than just showing them how to do it.
Assessments are important in measureing if they are retaining the content and how it can be applied.
Group work can be very beneficial for building teamwork around students.
It is important to assess student knowledge through assessing student performance and learning abilities.
Creating assessments that will adequately show a measurable amount your student assimilated during your course is probably the most difficult aspect of being an instructor. Courses require an amount of required content to meet academic requirements. If the content is less than the requirements, then the student is not prepared and if there is an excessive amount content students will be overwhelmed. An assessment of a chapter or chapters should not be over an excessive amount of content, students that study for a comprehensive exam over ten chapters of information will be overwhelmed and anxious due to the amount content studied to answer ten questions from each chapter in a hundred question exam. Test anxiety plays a huge role in student success when taking assessments. Is the assessment too hard or too easy? Gauging assessment difficulty so it shows an accurate trend takes time and patience.
I learned Bloom's taxonomy (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) and its importance. As educators, our job doesn't simply end by providing information to our students. They have to learn how to apply/utilize the lessons they learned in real life.
I like the informal knowledge checks that can be performed in the classroom to check for understanding. At times, the instructor will verbally ask students questions to obtain responses. This is good for the instructor and to see where they are at and good for the student to hear the correct answer and reinforce learning.
Assessing a student is a good way to determine where a student is at in learning. Students self assesment is just as important.
Assessments are a good way of studying a student and seing how well they communicate and their education and comprehension level.
I appreciated the sections speaking to active learning and ethics. The HBS videos were especially insightful - the case study video resonated as the professor spoke to knowledge being applied by a student later in life and remembered from class.
I like using the CAT activities and short review of the classes I also need to implement the blooms taxonomy better. I wish their were more skills application tests to see if they are grasping the practical skills but those seem to b going into extinction.
Learned the student assessments.
IUlearn about the CATs, very interesting ,will apply it to my students.
Assessment can help to discover each students learning style
Is it equally important to test students' knowledge is through non-graded assessments. I keep in mind that students have test anxiety and non-graded assessments not only test their knowledge but also build confidence and the students can see how much they have truly retained without added pressure. When it is test time, their anxiety level may have decreased. It also gives me an idea of what they have learned and what needs attention.
CATs and Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Objectives will be very useful as an instructor. It is important to assess and confirm that the studnents are learning what we are trying to have them understand and comprehend.
