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Ashley Tan

Half an Hour: New Forms of Assessment: measuring what you contribute rather than what y... - 1 views

  • In the schools, too, there is no reward for helping others (indeed, it is heavily penalized). Suppose educational achievement was measured at least partially according to how much (and how well) you helped others. The value of the achievement would increase if the person is a stranger (and conversely, decrease to zero if it's just a small clique helping each other) and would be in proportion to the timeliness and utility of the assistance (both of which can be measured).
  • Suppose instead students were rewarded for cooperation. Not collaboration; this is just the school-level emulation of the creation of cliques and corporations. Cooperation, which is a common and ad hoc creation of interactions and exchanges for mutual value.  Cooperative behaviours include exchanges of goods and services, agreement on open standards and protocols, sharing of resources in common (and open) pools, and similar behaviours. Imagine receiving academic credit for contributing well-received resources into open source repositories, whether as software, art, photography, or educational resources. Imagine receiving credit for long-lasting additions to Wikipedia or similar online resources (we would have to fix Wikipedia, as it is now run by a gang of thugs known as 'Wikipedia editors'). We can have wide-ranging and nuanced evaluations of such contributions, not simple grades, but something based on how the content contributed is used and reused across the net (this would have the interesting result that your assessment could continue to go up over time).
  • There is, again, no reason why public service cannot be incorporated into individual assessment. Adding value to fire and police services by means of monitoring and reporting (not the piece-work model of something like CrimeStoppers, but actual prevention), supporting environment by counting birds, sampling water, servicing sports events by acting as a timer or umpire - all these can add to a person's assessment. I'm not thinking of the simple sort of tasks grade school students can perform. Indeed, a person hoping to attain a higher level qualification would need to contribute to the public good in a substantial and tangible way. Offering open online courses (that are well-subscribed and positively reviewed by the community) should be a requirement for any graduate-level recognition. The PhD used to be about offering a unique research contribution to the field; now it's about paying tuition and being exploited as a TA. These three things - helping others, being cooperative, contributing to the public good - are obviously not easy to assess. To be sure, it's far easier to ask students simple questions and grade the number of correct responses. But assessing students in this way, far from measuring putative 'content knowledge', is really an exercise in counting without any real interest in what is being counted. It acts as an invitation to cheat, as it places self-interest ahead of the values it is actually trying to measure.
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    Stephen Downes very alternative thinking on alternative assessment: Helping others, being cooperative, and contributing to public good.
wittyben

Assessment tools for a flipped or blended class « Education, Technology & Bus... - 1 views

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    A possible list of assessment tools for flipped or blended classrooms
Ashley Tan

ingentaconnect The assessment life cycle: A model for analysing institutional e-... - 2 views

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    Also from BJET: An article on e-assessment.
Rachel Tan

Simple Techniques for Applying Active Learning Strategies to Online Course Videos | Fac... - 2 views

    • Rachel Tan
       
      Dr Ashley, I agree with you and posting a question at the beginning of the video is an excellent strategy. That is how I learn. I need to know the question upfront so that I know what to pay attention to in the video.
  • Embed short graded or self-assessments either in the video itself, or at the end of each video. Including one or two multiple-choice questions or requests to post to a forum—either between scenes (using a post-production editing tool such as Camtasia or Captivate) or after the video—alerts students to the “take homes” they should be getting from the material. It also helps teachers assess, at point of contact, whether students understand the major concepts.
    • Rachel Tan
       
      This (self assessment) is absolutely necessary to give learning a chance to happen, as we develop open learning courses. This applies to Google Sites training resources out there.
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  • Video as a way to strengthen online research skills while driving conceptual understanding.
    • Rachel Tan
       
      Dr Ashley, this is a really good article - timely, very useful. Thanks for sharing!
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    For IDs and VCDs! Quote: "there's a big difference between watching a video and learning something from it" Article goes on to suggest strategies for incorporating videos into lessons. 
Rachel Tan

Blackboard Learn Quick Hit Video - Item Analysis - 0 views

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    Item Analysis helps you refine assessments by evaluating the quality and validity of each question. Far better than the usual Frequency and Distribution reports, our Item Analysis report, available since Service Pack 10, provides discrimination statistics that allow you to identify questions that are poor performers, diagnose the problem and then fix it in a streamlined workflow.
Ashley Tan

Easy Assessment App « Mr Robbo - The P.E Geek - 2 views

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    For the app developers in CeL. This is not the prettiest app but it has some interesting ideas on creating rubric-based evaluations. I like the sliding Likert-type scale and the way other artefacts like photos and videos can be added to an evaluation.
Shamini Thilarajah

The LoTi Connection - 0 views

  • The Levels of Teaching Innovation (LoTi) Framework was first conceptualized by Dr. Chris Moersch in 1994 as a research tool to assess authentic classroom technology use.
  • measure classroom teachers implementation of the tenets of digital-age literacy
  • The LoTi Framework focuses on the delicate balance between instruction, assessment, and the effective use of digital tools and resources to promote higher order thinking, engaged student learning, and authentic assessment practices in the classroom--all vital characteristics of 21st Century teaching and learning.
Obi-Wan Fareed

A Learning Science Alternative to Bloom's Taxonomy by Brenda Sugrue : Learning Solution... - 0 views

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    In 2002, I proposed two alternatives to Bloom's Taxonomy for classifying objectives in order to design appropriate instruction and assessment (Sugrue, 2002). One was based on Merrill's content performance matrix (Merrill, 1983). The other I called the "pure performance" alternative, which did not require any classification.
casey ng

To Break the Mold, Is Competency Learning the Key? | MindShift - 0 views

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    competency learning is the key for student demonstrate what they can do. Traditional assessment only measure what they learn which is not enough.
yeuann

Automated Problem Generation for Education - Microsoft Research - 0 views

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    This could be useful for helping overworked teachers automate a tedious aspect of formative and summative assessment: tests. Yes, it's about exams, but it may not be as bad as it looks, because it can be used to enhance personalized workflows.
Pratima Majal

Instead Of Tests, Video Games To Assess Student Learning - 2 views

  • srooms. The Gainesville Sun reports that the University of Florida is offering an online course called "21st Century Skills in StarCraft," which requires student to play the real-time, multi-player online strategy game "StarCraft" for up to two hours per week.
  • University of Florida is offering an online course called "21st Century Skills in StarCraft," which requires student to play the real-time, multi-player online strategy game "StarCraft" for up to two hours per week.
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    Thanks for sharing this. It's something I might be able to use for my trainees next semester. BTW, gaming as tests is news only to the layperson. Gamers and educators/researchers involved with gaming know that games are mainly a series of tests! People can't get over the idea that you can actually enjoy yourself taking tests.
Ashley Tan

mLearning Assessment Project - 4 views

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    Looks like we aren't the only ones looking for ways to evaluate our m and e-learning efforts.
yeuann

Location-based learning: The context is mobile | Instructional Design Fusions - 3 views

  • Mobile devices have some unique affordances: They offer location-sensors (e.g., GPS, RFID, WLAN) and they can deliver multimedia content that is time- and place-relevant. Opportunities for embedded assessment can also be used to assess and fine-tune mlearning design.
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    An interesting piece about how the unique affordances of mobile devices enable newer forms of learning.
yeuann

SOLO Taxonomy - Understanding about Understanding - 2 views

Very simple and visual... thanks for sharing!

Cognition assessment levels of understanding

started by jasonyai on 07 Oct 11 1 follow-up, last by yeuann on 10 Oct 11
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Sally Loan

Learning in the 21st century | TODAYonline - 1 views

  • Teaching is not simply presenting ideas and insights, nor filling students’ heads with what we know or transmitting information. Learning is not just committing facts to memory but the ability to critique, synthesise, analyse, use and apply information.
  • The addition of greater interactivity is essential to make knowledge transfer in universities more meaningful in today’s world
  • . But how do we integrate the digital world’s resources into classroom-based learning?
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  • A key element in any directed learning environment is the assessment of competence in that knowledge.
  • The first step — “knows” — is knowledge about a subject, such as recalling facts. The second is to “know how” to use the knowledge, such as in analysing a problem. The third step is to demonstrate proficiency in applying the knowledge — “shows how”.
  • The fourth step is to see how the knowledge is integrated into the real world.
  • The final step, “mastery”, refers to the competence of an expert who teaches the next generation.
yeuann

A tablet-based application for supporting effective lesson study - 0 views

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    LessonNote, an iPad-based observation tool "Lesson Study Alliance and Project IMPULS are developing an application for iPad, the LessonNote, to help practitioners of lesson study improve the quality of their post-lesson discussions by improving the quality of observational data collected during the lesson. It has been tested in research lessons in both the U.S. and Japan. The first version of this application will soon be available for free from the iTunes store."
yeuann

Science Education on the Edge · THIS is why I love digital portfolios: what d... - 2 views

  • If you spend some time with this portfolio you’ll see: Assessment by skill and content-area standards Extensive use of various web-based tools Reflection on one’s own learning Cooperative group projects Content-area writing Student-designed experiments Use of multiple devices and apps This is what my classes look like.
Ashley Tan

Centre for e-Learning - 0 views

  • Take photos or videos while filling in the APT Form
  • Three types of forms to choose from: - Pre & Post Practicum Conferences Form - Assessment of Performance in Teaching (APT) Form - Summative Report Part III
  • Designed for iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
    • Ashley Tan
       
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