Being consistent with feedback, and utilizing rubrics for assessments when necessary are important.
Providing feedback to a student helps them learn. Feedback needs to be specific to that student and not just a generic comment. I learned the importantce of a rubric and how important the objective and criteria are to help a student produce a good assignment/project. I plan to use the self-assessment and peer-assessment rubrics in order to help students turn in better work.
A thought that I had during this lesson was the relationship between the teacher and students that I learned in the earlier class. This relationship will go hand in hand with providing meaningful feedback. It is such a delicate way that things must be addressed in the online relem. If you respond a certain way the student may not like how you answered them and give up or complain that you did not want to give help. I see that it is so easy to mess up and I must be strong with this aspect when teaching online.
I learned that assessment both formative and summative is a vehicle to improve learning and teaching. Balancing both formative and summative assessment in your course provides your students and you with the information about the learning that is occuring.
The crucial thing of assessments is making sure there is a purpose behind it. It's not just about spitting back information, but it's about showing mastery of the learning.
Rubrics is something that I still have to work on and get comfortable with. As for students giving me feedback during course evaluations. This helps me learn and change the way I teach to make me a better instructor.
I will be sure to use rubrics correctly, and give student feedback in such a way that it provides more learning for the student.
Formative and summative assessmen are different, but important components of the learning process and should be created in a variety of ways.
Students have to be given direction. A rubric just sets it all out there for them. The teacher, of course, is there to provide direction also as the facilitator. Feedback is so important. The students need this to give them direction.
Feedback and a clear understandable rubric lead to student success
Assessments should be planned, use various strategies to test knowledge, and be directly connected to the learning objectives. I liked learning about the rubrics and how to use objectives and criteria because I mostly grade summative assessments using rubrics.
Meaningful feedback is just as important as the final assessment grade. It is also a good practice to have students assess their own work - with time to revise - and then have instructor score the work. This gives them a better understanding of what met expectations and what didn't.
This is a good reminder of good teaching practices.
Well thought out Rubrics can help the students understand the full expectations for a project and when enough detail is provided in the criteria, could help curb a lot of common problems like spelling, grammar and too little information provided.
Providing a rubric is important for students and the teacher. Allowing students to use rubric to check others work and make changes to their own is important.
What i learned from this is that FEEDBACK is important. Don't just give a grade. Give an explanation on how or what needs to be improved. If you have a special needs student, use the appropriate feed ex. if one is blind give verbal, hearing impaired give written.
The immediate and positive feedback provided on assignments/projects is an important factor in student success. Feedback should be:
- Connected to learning objectives as well overall SLOs for the course. Connecting a rubrics to it is an interesting thought and one that I may pursue later.
- Frequent as applied to assignments, projects, and online responses
- Positive in tone-negative comments or tones will discourage the student
- Responses should be automatic or within a 48 hour period if at all possible.
- Feedback should be provided in a variety of ways such as:
- written peer or instructor feedback on assignments, projects, discussions, etc.
- auditory during synch instruction
- visual during synch instruction or written
- Individualized feedback is essential to making sure that the student understands that the instructor is evaluating or reviewing their work and not someone elses.
- Specific and detailed-instructors should gather specific or detail examples of the student work. In our case we use measurements when inspecting a students project that they made in class. Comments or questions we have are directed to them specifically regarding the projects and/or assignment. This the same whether it is online or face to face instruction.
Providing feedback to students is critical at this time. It is also important to create feedback for yourself and peers as a support network.
Providing feedback goes deeper than simply assigning a grade and the type of feedback to be given will vary depending on the nature of the assignment being discussed
Providing feedback that is effective and meaningful to each student is crucial their learning. As teachers it is vital that we provide feedback that each of our students can take to improve upon their learning when necessary.
