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Christine Locke

Healthier Testing Made Easy: Assessment. - 1 views

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shared by Christine Locke on 27 May 12 - Cached
  • It's simply performances and product requirements that are faithful to real-world demands, opportunities, and constraints. The students are tested on their ability to "do" the subject in context, to transfer their learning effectively.
    • Christine Locke
      Christine Locke on 27 May 12
       
      Love this idea and the following idea. I believe it is so important for students to understand how their learning will later be used in "real world" situations. Students often feel that what they're learning is not important. With this type of assessment they will feel their learning has a purpose.
  • The best assessment is thus "educative," not onerous. The tasks educate learners about the kinds of challenges adults actually face, and the use of feedback is built into the process. In the real world, that's how we learn and are assessed: on our ability to learn from results.
  • This just makes sense. The more you teach without finding out who understands the information and who doesn't, the greater the likelihood that only already-proficient students will succeed.
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  • An overwhelming majority are convinced that their best learning takes place when they have a chance to submit an early version of their work, get detailed feedback and criticism, and then hand in a final revised version. ... Students improve and are engaged when they receive feedback (and opportunities to use it) on realistic tasks requiring transfer at the heart of learning goals and real-world demands."
  • meaning and transfer
  • This study concluded that "students who received assignments requiring more challenging intellectual work also achieved greater than average gains on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills in reading and mathematics, and demonstrated higher performance in reading, mathematics, and writing on the Illinois Goals Assessment Program. Contrary to some expectations, we found high-quality assignments in some very disadvantaged Chicago classrooms and [found] that all students in these classes benefited from exposure to such instruction. We conclude, therefore, [that] assignments calling for more authentic intellectual work actually improve student scores on conventional tests.
  • Research by Fred M. Newmann
  • Tests don't just measure; they teach what we value.
  • Increasing formative assessment is the key to improvement on tests of all kinds, including traditional ones.
  • improving the quality of classroom feedback offers the greatest performance gains of any single instructional approach
michealburford

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~etc-c/etc599DE/readings/Maddux,%20Fads,%20distance%20and%20the%... - 0 views

jan.ucc.nau.edu/...20importance%20of%20theory.pdf

education technology bestpractices learning Resources

shared by michealburford on 29 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • michealburford on 29 Jul 14
     
    Fads, Distance Education,and the Importance of Theory Cleborne D. Maddux SUMMARY. Fads are common in every area of education. The problem with fads is that even promising developments are quickly abandoned to make room for the next innovation. Educational innovations become fads partly because they are without a firm foundation in theories of learning, or because that foundation is not fully identified and communicated. There have been many examples of fads in information technology in education. The question of whether or not distance education will turn out to be a fad is addressed, and some tentative steps are discussed that might help avoid its achieving fad status. [
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