This is a supplementary letter in response to Kurtz and colleagues' recent publication exploring the creation of assessments for active learning, with the aim of discussing some of the important points raised by the authors and improvements based on our experience as final year medical students....
7. Assess for learning Utilize formative assessments combined with reoccurring check-ins to plot student progress and growth points. During one-on-one discussions of assessment outcomes, it is essential to put progress vs. achievement in perspective, so students feel capable of persevering through the...
The need for identifying authentic assessments, or learning tasks, in online music courses is becoming integral as the rate of online music course offerings has been exponentially increasing. Supportive research also suggests that instructors teaching in higher education may require a paradigm shift in ...
In order to ensure that the course assessments target the intended learning goals, we developed content for low-stakes assessment components grounded in education theory, combining current knowledge of educational psychology and the software engineering domain to create evaluations that will effectively ...
Ch 5.Motivation in Learning Ch 6.Individual Differences in... Ch 7.Assessments of Learning Ch 8.Instructional Pedagogy Ch 9.Research Design and Analysis Ch 10.Educational Technology Overview Ch 11.Studying for Psychology 102 Promoting Safe Schools ...
(essentials for structuring projects effectively, project ideas, what to watch for, and avoiding pitfalls); "Assessment of Project Work" (e.g., purpose of the assessment, identify instructional goals and outcomes to develop appropriate assessments, selecting assessment tasks, student self-assessment, ...
That is the basic premise behind assessments that aim to benchmark or diagnose learning. After administering your assessment of choice, review and discuss the results to define your spring board toward academic growth and achievement for each student. 2. Set goals Goals are a powerful tool that ...
They called for the teacher candidates to engage with students through one-on-one interviews, individual assessments, and small and whole group instruction. These assignments required teacher candidates to “try on” the research-based practices they were learning about through their coursework. We ...
In particular, they were chosen in pairs to include one school from each district that performed well on Primary 6 leaving assessments, admittedly an imperfect proxy for quality, and a nearby lower-performing school, to minimise the social, political and community-based differences between them. ...
assessments in the iGCSE course, having not taught the curriculum previously. It was a useful endevour that opened up a lot of different avenues that I hadn't previously thought about and was great for collating ideas from...