Week 2 Blog Post

We didn't complete the activity for this week, but thought it might be helpful to share how we would format it:

BLOG POSTS: Create one post with two entries, or two separate entries for this week:

First post: Here you will begin to think about assessment and tying it in to your learning outcomes. You have already thought about and written what your goals and outcomes may be, as well as considered a needs assessment for your learners. Here, you will start to plan how to provide effective feedback to your students. Read pages 13-14 of Fink's Guide and post your answers to the questions on page 15 in your blog.

1. Forward-Looking Assessment Formulate one or two ideas for forward-looking assessment. Identify a situation in which students are likely to use what they have learned, and try to replicate that situation with a question, problem, or issue.

2. Criteria & Standards Select one of your main learning goals, and identify at least two criteria that would distinguish exceptional achievement from poor performance. Then write two or three levels of standards for each of these criteria.

3. Self-Assessment What opportunities can you create for students to engage in self-assessment of their performance?

4. “FIDeLity” Feedback What procedures can you develop that will allow you to give students feedback that is: Frequent Immediate Discriminating, i.e., based on clear criteria and standards Lovingly delivered

Second post: What kinds of teaching methods and content could best help your learners get to the goals and outcomes you set out to achieve? Continue reading Fink, pages 16-25. Start brainstorming how you could link activities and resources to your goals and assessments based on the worksheet on page 23. You don't have to have all the answers, this is just to get you started on thinking about the next phase in the design process. The Carnegie Melon reading should also be helpful in your brainstorming.

Learning goals for course:

Ways of assessing this kind of learning:

Actual teaching-learning activities:

Helpful resources (e.g. people, things):