This will be great for my pasty arts class since we are always involved with procedure within a procedure, these mini feedbacks through short verbal and written assessement will validate students and instructor through out this processs.
Hi Catherine - You are wise to administer the learning styles assessments early so that you can adapt your delivery from the beginning of your courses. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career! Susan
Classroom Assessment Techniques help me to vary my delivery and meet all of the learning styles of my students. I administer the assessment during one of the first class meeting and use the results to balance the ways I present the course content. The process helps my student and my teaching by reaching more students at once.
I like and use the "minute paper" CAT. Doing this allows students to reflect on the most important points from the class that day. Re-writing those points helps students to retain them.
I like to use the 1 minute essay. The purpose is not grammar but content and ideas. It allows me to hear from the students who are shy and hesitant to participate.
I agree with this. If we ask if there are questions and no one has one, class is dismissed. Then immediately there are questions!
I find the background knowledge probe helpful in that there's a wide range of experiences, from little to a lot. I will call on a student with pre-knowledge to give an example or describe a situation or experience related to the lesson.
For a culinary student/instructor (CATS) can easily be icorporated. For example, A dish may have various knife cuts to be produced. Stopping all production and viewing each cut is an excellent example of assesment.
I have used these before in my classroom. I like the one minute paper and the CAT that focuses on what students are still confused about from the lecture/class.
These are good for the class because they are easy to share.
The CATs that are harder to share are the ones where students are assessing their learning thus far. Often they indicate their frustration with their grade, rather than what they are learning. I have to admit that I am sensitive if anything negative about the teacher comes up!
After covering a topic in class, I can ask my students to give me a quick summary or out line of what I have just lectured on. This way I can see just how much my students are getting from the lecture.
I have moved to more formative assessments and fewer summary type. However, I do find that if the formative assessments are not given some point value, no matter how minor, they aare not taken seriously by our students.
Hi Terry - I agree that instructors need to use an incremental approach when building towards a major exam. Regular quizzes and other assessments will build their confidence as well as letting us know if we are getting the material across. Susan
Assessment needs to happend with the class before administering an exam(assessment) because if they are not prepared and fail the exam the will entirely disconnect from the class with and no longer be interested. Therefore the teacher has to know that the students know the material before administering high stakes exams.
Simply being the last one to leave the room after class allows your more introverted students to give you feedback you would otherwise miss.
Hi Ty- I think you will find that the "Minute Paper" is very effective! Best wishes - Susan
I like the concept of a "minute paper". Often I will ask the class, "So what was one thing you learnt today?" It seems that either I get an overwhelmong response or just blank stares. I think by having the students write a summary of the day's learning and ask one question would create a better response and assess my teaching style.
Hi Erin - You are doing an excellent job of encouraging active learning- well done! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Kevin- Thanks for your post to the forum. The punctuated lecture technique is excellent! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career! Susan
Hi Betsy - Thank you for a great post to the forum! I especially appreciated your own ideas to use some of these assessments. Best wishes - Susan
I have used CAT's such as Punctuated Lectures and Redirected Paraphrasing in the past, but will be adding other CAT techniques such as Knowledge Probe, Chain Notes, etc going forward.
The Knowledge Probe would be a useful tool for the students at the end of each class day, or at the end of a specific course segment. The collected information could be used as a review for where there may be any content delivery weaknesses, or individual student's problem with assimilation of course content.
I thought the link provided in the online notes for more CAT techniques was very useful.
