Methodology Through Experience

Assessing Student Learning

Alice Ghimisian

The Reflective Practitioner

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This is how we do it:

Assessment Design

• Pedagogical philosophy

• Disciplinarity

• Models of assessment

• What we know about ways students learn

Feedback

• Practices to improve student learning

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What Is Your Purpose of Assessment?

• transformation of knowledge vs. reproduction of knowledge

• grade or rank student achievement

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Different Perceptions…

How We See It

• Assessment as a motivator of learning

• Assessment should be developmental

• Feedback has a valuable role to play

How They See It

• Never motivating (25%)

• Assessment is more about grading

• Assessment is less about learning

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QAA Purposes of Assessment

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• Pedagogy

• Measurement

• Standardization

• Certification

Principles of Assessment Design

• Assessment for learning

• Embedding assessment in curriculum design

• Constructive alignment

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Two Approaches…

• Deep approach to learning

• Surface approach to learning

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Conceptual-change, student-focused

or

information-transmission focused approach?

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What Are Your Usual Methods of Assessment?

Assessment/Feedback to Support Learning

• Facilitates the development of self-assessment (reflection) in learning

• Promotes peer assessment and tutor dialogue around learning

• Helps define good performance (goals criteria, expected standards)

• Closes the gap between current and desired performance

• Delivers high-quality information to students about their learning

• Encourages positive motivational beliefs and self-esteem

• Helps teachers shape the teaching

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Assessment as Marking

Six basic principles:

• Consistency

• Reliability

• Validity

• Levelness

• Transparency

• Inclusivity

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