I think that assessment plans need to be consistent! I have had instructors who had different standards than others. And this was in relation to safety concerns. Students were not being assessed on their use of safety related practices and we told that they could just do it next term. It is a source of contention...
Use both formative and summative assessments. Using rubrics can make the assessment process less confusing for the student. They save time with grading and provide feedback to the student. Using peer assessment helps the student see something from another point of view.
Rubrics are helpful to explain what is expected to what is no satisfactory . helps you gauge the level of participation and learning. Rubric could also show attitudes with regard to the subject. Does the student consistantly do just enough to get a passing grade ? canbe used to see improvment or decline as well.
Feedback must be frequent and tied to learning objectives.
I totally had an AH-HA moment for feedback. Feedback should increate learning instead of justifying the grade. What a great, simple way to remember!
Whether in the workplace or the learning environment, feedback is a tool to help foster improvement. This feedback should be constructive in such a manner that it encourages more of the good practices and disccourages the bad practices. The use of a rubric helps provide structure to the quality assessment of an assigment submitted by the student. Providing this rubric beforehand gives advance notice of how the student will be evaluated and graded. This same rubric can be provided again to the student with a breakdown of points awarded, any comments, and the grade total. Using feedback methods that are constructive and specific help the student to improve upon themselves while providing the instructor with valuable feedback about any changes that are need in future course sections.
Rubrics provide feedback in a manner that helps grades things fairly and evenly across the board. I have learned the impact they have on learning. I also learned about the other types of feedback that can be given such as formative, summative, peer evals and other ways to ensure that learning is happening and that the objective is being achieved.
I learned from this module the power and importance of rubrics. This is a great tool, and can be tremendously helpful to the teacher and to students. I can see how to apply it in a number of ways. Teachers can apply it when assessing how students are incorporating the essential elements in projects. Students can use it in assessing that they are meeting all of the required elements in a project, as they are constructing the project.
I learned the importance of rubrics, feedback and self/peer assessment.
Summative and normative plans combination is useful
While I am very familiar with the use of rubrics, the concept of formative assessments is something I have not used often. I think the one-minute paper / muddiest-point paper ideas would be useful for me, as instructor, to determine students' learning progress.
People are afraid of failure, and the use of a rubic in a learning enviroment gives the student a road map to learning success.This also helps draw the student's attention to possible points where greater attention is needed.
It is important to use both formative and summative assessment in the online community. This will allow the student to demonstrate a variety of skills and levels of knowledge. It is also important to provide clear rubrics for all assignments in order for the students to have clear expectations.
I am a firm believer that students retain information in a peer learning environment. We should take evey opportunity to allow students to collaborate.
Feedback is important to students as it helps them to understand that different teachers have different teaching styles and they will encounter many teachers in their lifetime. Additionally feedback helps the student scafold changes into their work for future modules.
I have learned about the different types of formative assessments. I will incorporate some of these in my next course.
Feedback is a great tool to tell the learner that what they are doing is great or needs work. The rubrics allows the teacher to grade against what was expected and listed in the rubric. it gives structure to grading
I like the idea of providing meaningful feedback in a variety of media. Video feedback is an option I would have never thought about using.
I learned that criteria and objectives are the most important things to consider when develping a rubric.
Providing feedback that is specific is helpful for student learning. A "good job" does not provide sufficient information for an improvement.
Rubrics take some of the subjectivity out of written assignments which I prefer as students are not as able to claim favortism over grades
