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Gary Brown

New test measures students' digital literacy | eCampus News - 0 views

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tests information literacy critical thinking

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  • Employers are looking for candidates who can navigate, critically evaluate, and make sense of the wealth of information available through digital media—and now educators have a new way to determine a student’s baseline digital literacy with a certification exam that measures the test-taker’s ability to assess information, think critically, and perform a range of real-world tasks.
  • iCritical Thinking Certification, created by the Educational Testing Service and Certiport, reveals whether or not a person is able to combine technical skills with experiences and knowledge.
  • Monica Brooks, Marshall University’s assistant vice president for Information Technology: Online Learning and Libraries, said her school plans to use iCritical Thinking beginning in the fall.
  • Gary Brown on 13 Apr 10
     
    the alternate universe, a small step away...
Corinna Lo

Scoring rubric development: validity and reliability. Moskal, Barbara M. & Jon A. Leydens - 1 views

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reliability assessment validity

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  • Corinna Lo on 16 Apr 10
     
    "One purpose of this article is to provide clear definitions of the terms "validity" and "reliability" and illustrate these definitions through examples. A second purpose is to clarify how these issues may be addressed in the development of scoring rubrics."
Corinna Lo

A comparison of consensus, consistency, and measurement approaches to estimating interr... - 2 views

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reliability assessment

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  • Corinna Lo on 16 Apr 10
     
    "The three general categories for computing interrater reliability introduced and described in this paper are: 1) consensus estimates, 2) consistency estimates, and 3) measurement estimates. The assumptions, interpretation, advantages, and disadvantages of estimates from each of these three categories are discussed, along with several popular methods of computing interrater reliability coefficients that fall under the umbrella of consensus, consistency, and measurement estimates. Researchers and practitioners should be aware that different approaches to estimating interrater reliability carry with them different implications for how ratings across multiple judges should be summarized, which may impact the validity of subsequent study results."
Joshua Yeidel

ILT - Nov 2009 issue - 0 views

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learning social learning

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 16 Apr 10
     
    "In three issues for Inside Learning Technologies, Jane Hart shares the rpos and cons of building three types of social learning environment, and how to deliver them at low or no cost."
  • Joshua Yeidel on 16 Apr 10
     
    Assessment is not even mentioned, but the series is still useful.
Joshua Yeidel

Digication :: NCCC Art Department Program Evaluation :: Purpose of Evaluation - 0 views

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portfolio assessment program

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 27 Apr 10
     
    An eportfolio for program evaluation by the Northwest Connecticut Community College Art Department. Slick, well-organized, and pretty using Digication as a platform and host. A fine portfolio, which could well be a model for our programs, except that there is not a single direct measure of student learning outcomes.
Joshua Yeidel

Evaluations That Make the Grade: 4 Ways to Improve Rating the Faculty - Teaching - The ... - 0 views

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evaluations assessment

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 27 Apr 10
     
    Four (somewhat) different types of course evals, closing with a tip of the hat to multiple measures.
Joshua Yeidel

Can Learning Be Improved When the Budget Is in the Red? - Commentary - The Chronicle of... - 0 views

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learning assessment

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 27 Apr 10
     
    10 familiar strategies in neat bit-sized pieces
Joshua Yeidel

Op-Ed Contributor - Why Charter Schools Fail the Test - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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assessment education

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 05 May 10
     
    Charles Murray of the Amertican Enterprise Institute waves a conservative flag for _abandoning_ standardized tests in education-- from a consumer's (parent's) standpoint
Gary Brown

Postgraduate Wrath - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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employers

shared by Gary Brown on 14 May 10 - Cached
  • "So, what I want to know is, why are you wasting money on glossy fundraising brochures full of meaningless synonyms for the word 'Excellence'? And, why are you sending them to ME? Yes, I know that I got a master's degree at your fine institution, but that master's degree hasn't done jack ---- for me since I got it! I have been unemployed for the past TWO YEARS and I am now a professional resume-submitter, sending out dozens of resumes a month to employers, and the degree I received in your hallowed halls is at the TOP OF IT and it doesn't do a ----ing thing."
  • Who knows how smart and conscientious and skilled the graduate really is. He might falter in face-to-face interviews, or have an overly-thin resume. But that doesn't change the fact that the school in question admitted the student, put him through a public policy curriculum, and accredited him. If the writer is a klutz, then that, too, reflects upon the university that trained him.
  • Obviously, this student doesn't recall any non-vocational learning that happened, or doesn't respect it. He even terms the education he received "imaginary."
  • Gary Brown on 14 May 10
     
    As we wrestle with resistence to employer feedback in assessment, this side of the story gains a bit of press.
Nils Peterson

From Social Media to Social Strategy - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 10 May 10 - Cached
  • Choreography. Most organizations seek "high performance." Today, performance is no longer enough: excelling in yesterday's terms is excelling at the wrong things. This is downright self-destructive (just ask Wall Street). Today's radical innovators aren't merely mute performers, precisely executing the empty steps of a meaningless dance: they're more like choreographers. Choreographers define the steps of a better dance — they lay down better rules for interactions between supply and demand to take place.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 10 May 10
       
      It strilkes me that this connects to OAI's Aof A work. We recognize learning outcomes can't forever improve, but through better assessment, we can hope the programs are ever more attentive and responsive to changing situations.
Gary Brown

In Hunt for Prestige, Colleges May Undermine Their Public Mission - Government - The Ch... - 1 views

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research future of educaiton

shared by Gary Brown on 21 May 10 - Cached
  • many large research universities are placing too much priority on activities that raise the profile and prestige of their institutions but do little to improve undergraduate education.
  • "In some of these places, undergraduate education has never been a top priority," says Jane V. Wellman, executive director of the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability.
  • While its grants and gifts have gone up, the percentage of money it spends on core teaching and student services has gone down. Many students, of course, benefit from the private support and research dollars, as the university has built better facilities and attracted world-class faculty members.
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  • But the research aspirations of many large universities are in conflict with their founding principles, Ms. Wellman says, especially as undergraduate admissions has become more selective
  • another result of the chase for research dollars is that measures for faculty assessment and promotion rely too heavily on the research output and publication and too little on the quality of classroom teaching.
  • "I'm not pushing for banning research," he says, but there should be more flexibility and balance in the criteria."
  • Gary Brown on 21 May 10
     
    Nothing new, but affirmation of our perceptons.
Gary Brown

A concept cluster quiz ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes - 1 views

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language

shared by Gary Brown on 19 May 10 - Cached
  • Not everybody is happy when I say words have different meanings for each person that uses them. But it's hard to escape that conclusion when you actually look at language.
  • Geoffrey K. Pullum writes, "The people who think clarity involves lack of ambiguity, so we have to strive to eliminate all multiple meanings and should never let a word develop a new sense... they simply don't get it about how language works, do they?" A good lesson for the Semantic Web people, no?
  • Gary Brown on 19 May 10
     
    As we continue to refine the rubric, this short post is a useful reminder of the challenge....and the limits. We struggle in part because the formal assessment experience of many of our partners is not wide or deep, which in turns increases the language challenges.
Joshua Yeidel

A Professor at Louisiana State Is Flunked Because of Her Grades - Teaching - The Chroni... - 1 views

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assessment higher_education

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 19 May 10
     
    A fascinating look into the tangled web of misconceptions and cross-purposes in testing and grading, especially in an introductory non-major science course.
Sarah Usher

One Step Closer to My Dream - 3 views

My father was a police officer and he died protecting people and making this world a better place. All my life, I always wanted to follow in my father's footsteps and follow a path with police care...

police careers assessment education accountability higher_education

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Sarah Usher

One Step Closer to My Dream - 3 views

My father was a police officer and he died protecting people and making this world a better place. All my life, I always wanted to follow in my father's footsteps and follow a path with police care...

police careers assessment education accountability

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Nils Peterson

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Fast Company - 0 views

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  • "Colleges have become outrageously expensive, yet there remains a general refusal to acknowledge the implications of new technologies," says Jim Groom, an "instructional technologist" at Virginia's University of Mary Washington and a prominent voice in the blogosphere for blowing up college as we know it. Groom, a chain-smoker with an ever-present five days' growth of beard, coined the term "edupunk" to describe the growing movement toward high-tech do-it-yourself education. "Edupunk," he tells me in the opening notes of his first email, "is about the utter irresponsibility and lethargy of educational institutions and the means by which they are financially cannibalizing their own mission."
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09
       
      Several people to follow in this article. They are moving from open content up the ladder. I don't see them pointing to open assessment as Downes did a couple years back, but that may make a place for us to play with them
  • Joshua Yeidel on 04 Sep 09
     
    A good overview of how higher ed's core functions are being remixed online. As you might expect from the source, the emphasis is on the positive.
Joshua Yeidel

Transparency By Design: College Choices for Adults - 0 views

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assessment accountability

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 06 Aug 09
     
    No learning outcomes here -- just engagement and satisfaction surveys.
Joshua Yeidel

New Web Site Compares Student Outcomes at Online Colleges - Technology - The Chronicle ... - 0 views

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assessment accountability

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 06 Aug 09
     
    "College Choices for Adults [website] provides adults with specific information about what students are supposed to learn in the colleges' mostly career-oriented programs and measurements of whether they did." That's the billing in the Chronicle, but when I wen to the site, I found mostly self-reports of engagement and satisfaction.
Joshua Yeidel

Capella Learning and Career Outcomes - Program Outcomes - 0 views

www.capellaresults.com/BS_public_safety.asp

assessment accountability

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 06 Aug 09
     
    the site is called "Capellaresults", but I can't find any results data other than satisfaction surveys.
Nils Peterson

How To Crowdsource Grading | HASTAC - 0 views

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assessment harvest crowdsource HASTAC Cathy Davidson

shared by Nils Peterson on 16 Aug 09 - Cached
  • My colleagues and I at the University of Maine have pursued a similar course with The Pool, an online environment for sharing art and code that invites students to evaluate each other at various stages of their projects, from intent to approach to release.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 16 Aug 09
       
      This is feedback on our Harvesting Gradebook and Crowdsourcing ideas. The Pool seems to be an implementation of the feedback mechanism with some ideas about reputation.
  • Like Slashdot's karma system, The Pool entrusts students who have contributed good work in the past with greater power to rate other students. In general students at U-Me have responded responsibly to this ethic; it may help that students are sometimes asked to evaluate students in other classes,
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 16 Aug 09
       
      While there is notion of karma and peer feedback, there does not seem to be notion of bringing in outside expertise or if it were to come in, to track its roles
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