I have learned the difference in the assessments and when to determine which assessment to apply.
Formative assessments need to continue throughout course to ensure understanding of
materials by the students and instructors
Formative assessment must be ongoing because you must constantly assess yourself and the students, in about 20 years of teaching there is one fact......no two classes are alike.
I learned the difference between assessment and evaluation and how to integrated into my online teaching.
Scheduling of formative evaluations
Assessment of students has been shown to be very productive in the online class room. I like the way this course explained the three type and will be trying these out to better understand the process.
I would avoid using the words "assessment" and "evaluation" as different. The most common differentiation is between formative and summative and I would argue that those are the concepts that hold the most weight in designing any form of assessment/evaluation.
I didn't realize there were so many different types of assessments. I do use all of these types in my courses.
Linking any of these to real life examples and how they can apply it is the key to it all. I came into a department and the assessments seemed random. Like they were just slapped together to make a project longer. I said to myself that they were nothing like reality and I went about revising them to more accurately reflect real-world examples. Now when students ask why they are doing this assessment, I can say that it is exactly like a scenario encountered in real life and give an example. Makes it more desireable and more informative.
I have used most of these assessment tools.
This section made me aware of several options available to gauge student progress and understanding of the material.
A pre-test/post-test is a good diagnostic assessment to utilize to measure learning.
This module prvided me with the proper knowledge and techniques on doing diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments and to gauge student effective learning as well as inmproving instructor;s teaching methods.
Dr. Anton Hawatmeh
The concept of the muddiest point or 1-2-3 allows the instructor to gauge what knowledge has been retained and what could use a review. I will be sure to implement this into my teaching.
There is not just one way to assess. Students can even assess each other.
I understand the assessment concepts but I do not understand why they need to be anonymous; many of the types of formative assessments were directed to be anonymous which doesn't really make sense to me.
I learned that assessments are better than evaluations
Discussed how to space types of assessments and how to use different types of assessments.
I learned that I should use some diagnoitic formative assessments for my students.
Muddiest and 1-2-3 diagnostic testing is something I have always done but did not know the it had a name other than diagnostic testing. This section did a good job at explaining formative and summative testing.
