I find assessments helpful as they let us know how the student is doing, what they understand and what they need help in. That way you may help the student individually and the class as a whole to be successful in their course work.
Provide rubrics that are clear and match what you expect from the students to know and do.
I have gained an increased appreciation for two key points in preparing assessments and providing feedback. First, is the idea that not all assessments need to be part of a final grade, but may be better provided as tools for students to assess their own progress and readiness for formal assessments. Second, it is incredibly important that instructors provide useful feedback on why you assessed something the way you did, so that the learner can review, learn, and improve for next time. The learning being the real goal.
Rubrics are important to the instructor and the student. It is also important to give our students feedback.
planning is very crucial to teaching properly.
An assessment plan is vital because students in an asynchronous environment need feedback more than ever!
When having students submit work, it is important to either have them self-grade their work based upon the rubric or to have their peer grade their work. This allows for self reflection on the objectives and whether or not they were met. If done in a peer-format, then students who are assessing the work can evaluate as a third party and also learn how to ensure their work meets the objectives.
Providing feedback encourages students to succeed and can assist them in developing areas of improvment, if necessary.
From this module I can see that utilizing my rubric more will be helpful and important moving forward. I also like the idea of incorporating more peer reviews.
The assessment should be formative amd summative. Assessment is the vehicle to improved learning and teaching.
I learned to view assessment as a way to judge not only what the students have learned, but also how well I have taught the content of the course.
Providing clear feedback helps the student learn.
Rubrics are a vital tool, which I already love, but from the student's perspective in recognizing the importance of the objectives and result in work completed at a higher level.
Providing accurate and meaningful feedback is the key to getting better. I wonder if it is hard to be critical of a student in an online environment versus providing oral feedback F2F. If I have to be critical of something, I would rather do it nicely, but more directly. Maybe a telephone call would be good and you can determine tone of voice better????
Rubric, test or quiz can be use as an assessment. Feedback to students should be specific and on time. I was able to understood the difference in between difference between summative and formative assessment.
Detailed effective feedback gives the student information to improve their learning.
Rubrics are important in giving feedback. Feedback should be prompt and clear. Both formative and summative feedback are necessary to assess students understanding of the objectives of the lesson.
Feedback is essential to not only enrich the learning process, but also to establish a constructive relationship with the students. I plan on giving frequesnt, positive feedback when evaluating appropriate assignments
I didn't learn many 'new' things as I've read about this before except the last part about the ability to make auditory comments on projects. My students are required to make mP4 recordings for several projects in the classes I teach them. I have a rubric but am going to pursue learning how to make 'auditory' comments in their recordings.
I also liked the idea of adding the question "What were you most confused about in this lesson?" to their weekly reflection questions. This would help me identify areas to better clarify in future courses if I realized a lot of class were confused about the same thing.
Students will have clear description of the expectations of the course if rubrics are provided for assignments and projects.
