Об этом курсе: You will consider various techniques which help to assess student learning. The course also will help you to acquire the skills to develop and use appropriate assessment procedures. This course is part of the Foundations of Teaching for Learning program which is designed to assist people who are currently teaching but have had no formal teacher education improve their understanding of their role and work as a teacher. This set of courses will enhance your knowledge and understanding about learning and teaching and what makes a teacher a professional. Practical activities are provided to assist you in using what you have learned to improve your teaching practice. While these are optional, it is strongly recommended that you undertake them if at all possible. Of particular importance is a guide to the development of a portfolio to help you organize and document your thinking about what you have learned. In addition, you may be able to use the portfolio to access other opportunities in the future.
Автор: Commonwealth Education Trust
Преподаватели: Dr Peter Keegan, Senior Lecturer, Te Puna Wānanga, Faculty of Education
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Преподаватели: Associate Professor Gavin Brown, Director, Faculty of Education Quantitative Data Analysis and Research Unit
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Преподаватели: Professor John MacBeath, Professor Emeritus
University of Cambridge, UK
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НЕДЕЛЯ 1
An Introduction to Assessment Theory and Practice
What is the purpose of assessment? Research has shown that opinions on this differ around the world. In this week’s general introduction to assessment theory and practice, you can compare your own experience of assessment with some contrasting experiences from different parts of the world. We will take a clear look at how educational assessment integrates and links curriculum, teaching, and learning. We will then look at cultural factors that may influence the teaching practices of your workplace.
5 видео, 4 материалов для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: General Overview
- Reading: Syllabus
- Reading: Grading and Logistics
- Reading: Outline for Week One
- Видео: How societies use assessment and what you believe are the purposes of assessment
- Видео: Formative & Summative: Understanding the impact of timing on assessment decisions
- Видео: The Curriculum-Teaching-Assessment cycle: A framework for integrating assessment with instruction
- Видео: Cultural Concern: Perspectives of minorities on educational assessment
- Видео: Discussion 1
Оцениваемый: Quiz 1
НЕДЕЛЯ 2
The nature of feedback in improving teaching and learning
Feedback can vary greatly in its effectiveness. In the lectures this week we will identify the key characteristics of good (and bad) feedback. We will explore the practice of incorporating feedback into teaching. Teachers and students have their own views on what constitutes effective feedback. Understanding these views can help you to decide how you should give feedback to your own students. We will ask you to consider how you can best provide feedback to minority students. By the end of the week you should be able to generate your own examples of effective feedback for students.
5 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Outline for Week Two
- Видео: Feedback Effectiveness: Hattie & Timperley’s framework; Gan’s Question prompts
- Видео: Building Feedback into Teaching: Goals/Intentions; Strengths & Weaknesses
- Видео: Teacher & Student perceptions of feedback
- Видео: Cultural Concern: Perspectives of minorities on appropriate feedback mechanisms
- Видео: Interview 1
Оцениваемый: Quiz 2
Оцениваемый: Peer Assessment One
НЕДЕЛЯ 3
Reporting student achievement
Welcome back to our third week of exploring ideas connected to assessment. In the lectures this week, we explore current approaches to reporting and raise important questions about their validity. We will consider the strengths and weaknesses of standardized test scores and point you to effective techniques for writing reports and giving feedback that will actually help students and pupils improve their learning. We will give you tools for use in your own practice and encourage you how reporting practices used with majority groups might need to be modified for use with parents from minority groups.
5 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Outline for Week Three
- Видео: Reporting useful feedback: Where now, where going, what next?
- Видео: Grades, ranks, and scores: Problems with using these approaches
- Видео: Reporting against objectives, not test questions or items
- Видео: Cultural Concern: Perspectives of minorities on appropriate reporting mechanisms
- Видео: Discussion 2
Оцениваемый: Quiz 3
НЕДЕЛЯ 4
Guidelines for developing and using objectively answered question procedures
This week we describe specific techniques for designing assessment tools. The assessment tool that we will focus on is multiple-choice questions (MCQs), however we will present a number of different formats. You will be given practical advice and tools for creating a variety of good test questions. The key point to note is that unless such objectively-scored questions are written well, getting them right will not be an indicator of knowledge or skill in the domain being assessed. Test-wiseness (i.e., knowing how to answer such questions) increases test scores but this is no guarantee students actually understand more. Hence, care and attention needs to be paid to how test questions are written. Stay active – and enjoy the learning this week.
5 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Outline for Week Four
- Видео: Anatomy of a good MCQ: The Question and Answer
- Видео: Anatomy of a good MCQ: The Wrong Answers
- Видео: Valid alternatives to bad MCQ: Binary choice; Matching
- Видео: Valid alternatives to bad MCQ: Sequencing; Sorting
- Видео: Interview two
Оцениваемый: Quiz 4
Оцениваемый: Peer Assessment Two
НЕДЕЛЯ 5
Guidelines for developing and using human judgement scoring procedures
Last week we focused on assessments that could be scored against agreed correct answers. We will now look at judgement-based assessments. The main assessment method used in teaching has changed from objective-style to using judgement-based assessment. This change has brought forward some new issues for us to consider. We will introduce you to challenges that are inherent in designing and evaluating student performance in open-ended formats in the first lecture. In the next two lectures we will focus on two assessment tools that are often used under judgement-based conditions: the rubric and the essay. In the last lecture, we will explore the concepts of moderation and inter-rater reliability. The topics for this week require you to grapple with notions of accuracy, quality, reliability, validity, and error. By the end of the week you should be able to design a valid and reliable assessment task and corresponding marking scheme (rubric).
5 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Outline for Week Five
- Видео: Human judgement: Being aware of the errors we make
- Видео: Guiding judgements: Analytic & Holistic Rubric design and use
- Видео: Essay marking: Working towards more reliable and valid scoring
- Видео: Moderation: A key to ensuring reliable and valid scoring
- Видео: Discussion 3
Оцениваемый: Quiz 5
НЕДЕЛЯ 6
Guidelines for developing and using procedures that involve students in assessment
In this final week we will define two assessment practices that involve student participation: self-assessment and peer assessment. We will provide you with exemplars of both kinds of assessment for your own personal use, and point you to important issues that you will need to consider when preparing your own assessments. By the end of this week you should be able to create peer and self-assessment tasks that facilitate learning for children you teach.
5 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Outline for Week Six
- Видео: Rationale and Goals of Involving Students: Improved learning & self-regulation
- Видео: Good Peer Assessment practices
- Видео: Good Self-Assessment practices
- Видео: Concerns with peer and self-assessment: Keeping in mind validity
- Видео: Interview 3
Оцениваемый: Quiz 6
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Commonwealth Education Trust
The Commonwealth Education Trust invests in primary and secondary education and the professional development of teachers throughout their careers. Through education it seeks to enhance the opportunities for children from all walks of life to contribute to the sustainable development of their communities.
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I really learned a lot from this course. I hope they can make a follow up course dealing more extensively on the different formats of tests and how to analyze validity and reliability of test items.
thank you!! I really enjoyed this course, and now understand the assessment process better.
A very good course for teachers and other people interested in students assessment. I learned a lot from this course. As I was part of developing assessment items for a large scale assessment program, I used the skills i learned here and they were very useful.
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