rubrics are important for the instructor to grade everyone same and students learn what they have have done wrong and right. feedback is important students can benefit from all kinds of feedback.
Providing a rubric and positive feedbak to the students will make learning more interactive.
There are different types of assessments - formative, summative, self and peer. I was only aware of the formative, summative and peer. I will incorporate self-assessment throughout the remainder of the semester because it can identify patterns with how students learn.
I learned about self and peer assessments and how to apply those to my on line classses. Also I learned much more about rubics and how to apply rubics to my assessments.
I definitely need to improve feedback. I think many instructors have had the experience of putting a lot of time and energy providing feedback, only to see the student disregard it when they see they passed. But feedback can be critically important for some students.
Providing criticism must be done in a positive way. If done improperly, it could discourage the student from continuing.
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.
