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The purpose of formative assessment is to let students know where they are and where they need to go. In online learning environments, formative assessment is an opportunity to personalize learning. By leveraging the flexibility that asynchronous learning and technology offer, we can offer each student multiple pathways to learning and empower them to start making assessment decisions on their own.
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Assesment Essentials
Assesment Essentials
Assessment Then and Now
Assessment Then and Now
It’s important to understand what is meant by “formative assessment.” Watch this short video from assessment expert Dylan Wiliam.
Fourteen Simple Strategies to Reduce Cheating on Online Examinations
Fourteen Simple Strategies to Reduce Cheating on Online Examinations
The end of the academic term often brings final examinations and cumulative assessments to test students’ knowledge of course materials. With 30% of college students taking online courses (Allen & Segman, 2017), and that number expeditiously increasing, so will the need for administering exams within the online learning environment. Many instructors are hesitant to include exams within their online courses because of the potential of compromising academic integrity. Virtual live proctoring technologies but may be too expensive and not part of the instructor’s institution’s distance education infrastructure. Additionally, having students take exams under the eye of an online proctor may negatively impact student success on the exam (Lieberman, 2018). Even without expensive virtual proctoring tools, there are many ways that instructors can leverage the inherent features within their institution’s Learning Management System (LMS) to decrease cheating during online examinations. Here are 14 ways to do so:
Stop Giving Them Answers: Make Them Think!
Stop Giving Them Answers: Make Them Think!
Higher education has recently changed in faster and more dynamic ways than anticipated. COVID-19 is an immediate factor, but the access to information is more prevalent now than 15 years ago. Many students’ learning habits do not include long nights in the library reading through textbooks or searching through library stacks. Information is at students’ fingertips, and the desire for immediate access to information is only growing. There is a real sense in which students want answers now, and as educators, we are tasked with cultivating the intellect, which is a laborious process. “Learning is deeper and more durable when it’s effortful” (Brown, Roediger, & McDaniel, 2014). In other words, deep learning is hard work. We know this, and we are faced with convincing students that deep learning is meaningful and rewarding.
40 Reflection Questions
40 Reflection Questions
Using reflective prompts like the 40 listed here with students via digital forms or during synchronous calls also help students understand where they are and where they need to go.
Video: Assessment
Video: Assessment
What is a Performance Task?
What is a Performance Task?
A performance task is any learning activity or assessment that asks students to perform to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding and proficiency. Performance tasks yield a tangible product and/or performance that serve as evidence of learning. Unlike a selected-response item (e.g., multiple-choice or matching) that asks students to select from given alternatives, a performance task presents a situation that calls for learners to apply their learning in context.
Performance tasks are routinely used in certain disciplines, such as visual and performing arts, physical education, and career-technology where performance is the natural focus of instruction. However, such tasks can (and should) be used in every subject area and at all grade levels.
Video: Formative Assessment
Video: Formative Assessment
Director of Learning and Design, Eric Hudson covers key points to help leverage online learning environments in designing formative assessments and shares examples as well.
Video: Designing Summative Assessments
Video: Designing Summative Assessments
Director of Learning and Design Eric Hudson covers key points about designing summative assessments that offer students the opportunity to show what they’ve learned in a way that feels authentic and important.
Do Something
Do Something
This resource from Teaching Tolerance provides sample performance tasks for students to demonstrate their anti-bias awareness and civic competency by applying their literacy and social justice knowledge in an authentic real-world context.
90 Second Assessments
90 Second Assessments
19 formative assessment strategies for online teaching
19 formative assessment strategies for online teaching
At Teach. Learn. Grow., nothing makes us happier than knowing some of our posts are especially bookmark worthy. They’re the ones you keep coming back to when you need a quick boost of inspiration or a fresh idea. Kathy Dyer’s “27 easy formative assessment strategies for gathering evidence of student learning” is one of those. It’s full of formative assessment tools that can help you understand what students know and write lesson plans that will meet them where they are.
15 Resources for Rethinking Assessment
15 Resources for Rethinking Assessment
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