I understand the need and use objectives in the course subject matter of provide to my students.
What I need to do moving forward is testing myself more before I hand out mid term practical exam just to see if revisions need to be made.
Sometimes after the fact it could be something minor or moderate that needed a change. I've revised teaching material before but sometimes it has happend after the fact.. it's a hit or miss.....like how come I didn't see that coming.
So now I will be putting into practice by test myself with the course material.
BUT I still know no matter what depending on the change of the audience meaning the students.. changes will be a constant measure. Formative assesments and Summative assesments are very important tools that I use assesing my students as a vocational ed instructor.
Feedback is key for the educator in regards to making sure the lesson being taught is understood by the students.
In my classes we always review each student's work for feedback from other students and myself. Everyone learns even more and are usually inspired to do better.
It is important to incorporate reflective and self/peer assessment to give more meaningful learning.
Assessments and communication are key to success in an online forum.
Feedback is essential in the learning experience. It will immediately relay what is of concern and what is correct. Also, using a Rubric is a way for students to readily assess their progress and understanding what has been taught, and show their progress.
I have learned that peer assessment provides students the opportunity to assess the work of other students and also learn from other students in the process.
I understand that a more indept formative and summative assssement is needed. Both assessements are importantly equal for the course and assessments are dependent on the semester as well. Also, creating detailed rubrics will help students get feedback and improve learning. It will also save time for grading. The rubric also need to be connected with the learning objective.
When the feedback is connected to the learning objectives and meaningful feedback is provided to the students, learning is improved.
I did learn that rubrics allow instructors to target specific tasks in an assignment or project, and this helps with assessing learning. Student performance can be assessed as well. As an instructor, I can review the assignment to ensure all requirements are met, and if not, edit it before handing out to students.
Assessments, both formative and summative, with detailed rubrics and various methods of feedback provide students with tools to improve their learning, correct mistakes, and increase their knowledge and skills.
The value of accurately and specifically detailing grading rubrics to measure learning and assist the learner in focussing on the outcomes to be measured is crucial. This a win-win strategy that helps both Instructor and Student to learn together and evaluate as well.
Meaningful feedback will improve student learning. Rubrics with specific objectives will give a clear understanding of what is to be exspected.
Objectives Clear.
Criteria Clear.
Assessment Fair because it's based on the Rubric with the clear Obectives and Criteria.
I learned that rubrics are helpful in the students understanding of the objectives. I also learned that rubrics are helpful in the grading process.
Rubrics are something that I will utilize more often. I had a way of grading items, and was always consistent, but rubrics are helpful so that everyone is on the same page and there is no room for a lot of bias.
I have been reminded of other types of feedback: self and peer assessments which are just as important for evaluating learning improvement.
Being consistent with feedback, and utilizing rubrics for assessments when necessary are important.
Providing feedback to a student helps them learn. Feedback needs to be specific to that student and not just a generic comment. I learned the importantce of a rubric and how important the objective and criteria are to help a student produce a good assignment/project. I plan to use the self-assessment and peer-assessment rubrics in order to help students turn in better work.
A thought that I had during this lesson was the relationship between the teacher and students that I learned in the earlier class. This relationship will go hand in hand with providing meaningful feedback. It is such a delicate way that things must be addressed in the online relem. If you respond a certain way the student may not like how you answered them and give up or complain that you did not want to give help. I see that it is so easy to mess up and I must be strong with this aspect when teaching online.
