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Article(s): Self- and Peer-Assessment Online - 0 views

  • I wonder if the concept of peer evaluation is exclusive to higher education institutions in the USA
  • encourages the student to consider actions that he or she demonstrated to support the team
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      Self assessment can lead to higher learning and increased performance as the student's refer to the assignment criteria on the rubric.
  • learning occurs in, and is mediated by, social interaction
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      This seems to be a more realistic way to learn since this is how the majority of workplaces function.
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  • quality of comments
  • good grade
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      This seems like a loaded statement to me. Are we trying to get a good grade or are we trying to master the course material?
  • Students do not learn to monitor or assess their learning on their own; they need to be taught strategies for self monitoring and self assessment.
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      Teachers need to be education on how to teach this effectively to their students. The biggest problem is teachers finding the time to teach this on top of all of the other "requirements" that they are mandated to teach.

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ollie_4: Educational Leadership: The Quest for Quality--article - 5 views

  • the assessor should organize the learning targets represented in the assessment into a written test plan
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      This seems necessary if we are to achieve the highest level of assessment making sure we are actually assessing the learning targets appropriately, but I struggle with the fact that teachers have the time in their busy schedules or will take the time to create a test plan for every assessment they give.
  • Assessment literacy is the foundation for a system that can take advantage of a wider use of multiple measures
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      Sadly, I feel assessment literacy is lacking in education. We not only need to focus on the assessments we give our students but also on training our educators and classroom teachers on assessment creation and effective use of assessment results.
  • Most assessments developed beyond the classroom rely largely on selected-response or short-answer formats and are not designed to meet the daily, ongoing information needs of teachers and students
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      It's too bad that these tests are being used to make so many decisions in the education system when they are not fully assessing the students learning and mastery of skills.
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ollie_4: Article: Attributes from Effective Formative Assessment (CCSSO) - 4 views

  • students must be actively involved
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      This can be a big challenge for teachers when parents are not involved in their students' learning and/or students do not put forth the effort. Sadly, this is very common.
  • “just right gap”
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      The problem here is that the students in one class are not all at the same growth point and with growing class sizes, it can be difficult for the teachers to adjust to all students at the same time. Usually the advanced students will push themselves, but what about the lower students that need more time? With so much required of the teachers, they feel the pressure to move on so they can cover all of their units even when some students have not achieved the short term goals. This can lead to even bigger problems down the road.
  • allow the student an opportunity to identify ways to move learning forward
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      So important to allow the student to identify the ways to move forward instead of just telling them what to do. This is where true learning takes place.
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ollie_4: Building A Better Mousetrap: The Rubric Debate - 0 views

  • process and/or product
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      It's important that we remember to use the rubric not only to assess the final product but also during the process to guide learning and help the student grow.
  • solving real problems
  • solving real problems
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      It's sad that teachers are pressured to get their students to pass standardized tests that they don't always take the time to think about how what they are teaching their students is really helping them learn to solve real problems.
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  • facilitate
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      Rubrics should not be a scoring sheet for grading although that is how they are most commonly used. They need to be "facilitated" by the teacher and student to increase effort, understanding and performance throughout an assignment or project.
  • criteria must be made clear
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      Parents, teachers, students, administrators, etc. should all be able to understand the rubric and what is expected.
  • bring fairness into assessment
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      Students and parents can be very vocal with teachers about grades questioning a teacher's discretion. With quality rubrics and rubric eduation, this could be nearly eliminated.
  • While longer scales make it harder to get agreement among scorers (inter-rater reliability), extremely short scales make it difficult to identify small differences between students.
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      This is where rubric education is crucial for educators. Writing a vague rubric doesn't do the student or teacher any good, but having it too many dynamics can lead to confusion. It is necessary to get input and modify rubrics in order to achieve the best results.
  • Does the rubric encourage risk taking? Creativity? Self-expression?
    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      This would be a hard area to be non-judgmental because every student is at a different level with risk-taking, creativity, self-expression. What might be a big risk for one student, may be a minimal risk for another.
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ollie1 (Peterman): Iowa Online Teaching Standards - 28 views

    • Jamie Van Horn
       
      It could be difficult to use the data from assessments to guide instruction in a current course because often the online course is already established and changes cannot be made. However, data from assessments could be used for future classes.
  • As a newcomer to online learning, I believe the directions need to be incredibly explicit because the students don't necessarily "see" what the instructor sees, and the instructor isn't standing in the same room as the learner with the ability to just point at the concept
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