Assessment to Incite and Reconceptualize Learning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roseanna Bourke
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Support Measure ◽  
Assessment Of Student Learning ◽  
Prescribed Curriculum

Assessment needs to be a positive experience that can incite learners to progress their learning, understand themselves as learners, become excited about what they learn, and acknowledge that learning is more than the specified and often prescribed curriculum. Educational assessment typically requires students to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding, or application of their skills as a way to demonstrate their learning or, more specifically, their learning outcomes. Often this is to attract an external grade or mark related to an externally identified “standard,” or to show their level of “need” and thereby access additional resources. Students generally have little say in when or what is assessed, and their experiences have largely not been taken into account. There is a distinct difference between what a student learns and how the assessment results reflect their learning. To incite learning, assessment practices and processes need to celebrate learning and provide learners with positive, encouraging messages that their efforts contribute to their own growth. When the assessment process enables learners to see their own culture and identity valued, and allows opportunities to showcase diversity of learning, it becomes a meaningful and authentic process. In educational contexts, the process of assessment is typically an approach to support, measure, initiate, monitor, and explain the learning of self or others. Assessment of student learning has complex social, emotional, and academic influences on learners and on their lives more generally. A key unintended consequence of these practices has been well documented with regards to negative social and emotional consequences for the student, and these must be weighed against the “good” any assessment will do in terms of knowing the student and their learning aspirations. However, while there are distracting elements associated with the assessment of students, there is also value in using appropriate methods and processes to enhance and incite learning. Ultimately the rights of the learner to be included in their own assessment practices is key, and therefore it is argued the young person must be an agentic and capable assessor of their own learning for any assessment to be educational, culturally relevant, and authentic.

Assessing General Education Outcomes Across Programs

2011 ◽  
pp. 620-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Yang ◽  
Michelle Buchberger ◽  
Harrison Hao Yang
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Curriculum Mapping ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Mapping Process ◽  
Assessment Of Student Learning

As the pressure to provide accountability in education escalates, the assessment of student learning becomes increasingly important. This chapter describes an approach to the assessment of learning outcomes, in both online and face to face programs, as developed for an independent, non-profit university in Ohio. The approach includes three major components: a curriculum mapping process that determines where particular learning outcomes are being assessed, a visual representation of this curriculum map with links to assessment data (Success Path©), and a cyclical assessment process that assists with the continuous improvement of programs and student learning. This chapter leverages current research in the field of student learning, assessment, and curriculum mapping theory.

New Assessment Practices in Mathematics

1996 ◽  
Vol 178 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Schulman
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Performance Standards ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
National Council ◽  
Assessment Data ◽  
Mathematical Ideas ◽  
Mathematics Classrooms ◽  
Assessment Tasks

Assessment practices need to change in mathematics classrooms that adopt the curriculum standards recommended by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). An assessment system that focuses on broad learning outcomes, uses tasks that are aligned with instructional practices, involves students actively in the process, and informs teachers' instructional and curricular decisions is recommended. Such an assessment process requires teachers to identify important mathematical ideas, along with performance standards that describe what students must do to demonstrate that those ideas have been learned. Open-ended questions, observations, interviews, pre- and post-assessments, self- and peer-assessments are strategies that can be used to gather evidence of students learning. Documentation strategies are needed to help teachers organize and manage assessment data. NCTM has provided six standards for assessment that teachers can use as guidelines to help them evaluate the appropriateness of assessment tasks.

scholarly journals Peningkatan pembelajaran keterampilan berbicara melalui media gambar seri di kelas I

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Zarlianti Zarlianti
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Research Subjects

<p><em>The</em><em> goal is that students are brave, accustomed to being able to speak in all functions according to proper pronunciation and intonation Data collection is carried out by tests, observations or observation sheets and other supporting instruments of research. This study uses a qualitative approach with a type of classroom action research. The research subjects were first grade students of SDN. 08 Painan District IV Jurai. Based on the results of the study, the serial image media can improve students' speaking skills with three-stage learning activities, namely: (1) initial activities, (2) core activities, and (3) final activities. The result of the first cycle of research based on the implementation of the lesson plan is 76.8% and the recapitulation of student learning assessment is 74%. The results of the second cycle research based on the implementation of lesson plans were 83.9% and the recapitulation of the assessment process and student learning outcomes was 83%. From the results of observations and recapitulation of values obtained by students, it appears that students are active in the learning process.</em><em></em></p>

Planning for Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes: A Process within Your Grasp

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Connolly ◽  
Sandra DeYoung
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Outcome Data ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Assessment Of Student Learning ◽  
College Of Nursing ◽  
Total Program

Assessment in educational institutions is mandated by the public and by accrediting organizations. Faculty must plan for program assessment within the context of the college or university goals and assessment projects. Within the department or college of nursing, student learning outcomes must be assessed at the total program level and at the course and classroom levels. Faculty who are motivated to plan assessments and use outcome data should take leadership in the process. The process consists of determining the outcomes to be assessed, the measures to be used, and the standards to be reached. When data has been collected, it must be evaluated and used to make improvements. Finally, the assessment process itself should be assessed. This article gives examples of assessment methods for all levels of assessment at the institution, but especially at the program and course levels. A departmental assessment blueprint is included. The end result of implementation of an assessment plan is that at every level of the institution, excellence should be enhanced.

scholarly journals Exploring the Complexity of Student Learning Outcome Assessment Practices Across Multiple Libraries

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Harp Ziegenfuss ◽  
Stephen Borrelli
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Student Learning Assessment

Objectives – The purpose of this collaborative qualitative research project, initiated by the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA), was to explore how librarians were involved in the designing, implementing, assessing, and disseminating student learning outcomes (SLOs) in GWLA member academic libraries. The original objective of the research was to identify library evaluation/assessment practices at the different libraries to share and discuss by consortia members at a GWLA-sponsored Student Learning Assessment Symposium in 2013. However, findings raised new questions and areas to explore beyond student learning assessment, and additional research was continued by two of the GWLA collaborators after the Symposium. The purpose of this second phase of research was to explore the intersection of library and institutional contexts and academic library assessment practices. Methods – This qualitative research study involved a survey of librarians at 23 GWLA member libraries, about student learning assessment practices at their institutions. Twenty follow-up interviews were also conducted to further describe and detail the assessment practices identified in the survey. Librarians with expertise in library instruction, assessment, and evaluation, either volunteered or were designated by their Dean or Director, to respond to the survey and participate in the interviews. Interview data were analyzed by seven librarians, across six different GWLA libraries, using constant comparison methods (Strauss & Corbin, 2014). Emerging themes were used to plan a GWLA member Symposium. Based on unexpected findings, after the Symposium, two GWLA researchers continued the analysis using a grounded theory methodology to re-examine the data and uncover categorical relationships and conceptual coding, and to explore data alignment to theoretical possibilities. Results – Seventeen categories and five themes emerged from the interview data and were used to create a 3-part framework for describing and explaining library SLO assessment practices. The themes were used to plan the GWLA Assessment Symposium. Through additional qualitative grounded theory data analysis, researchers also identified a core variable, and data were re-evaluated to verify an alignment to Engeström’s Activity and Expansion Theories (Engeström, 2001, 2004). Conclusions – The findings of this multi-phased qualitative study discovered how contextual, structural, and organizational factors can influence how libraries interact and communicate with college departments, and the larger institution about student learning outcomes and assessment. Viewing library and campus interaction through the activity theory lens can demonstrate how particular factors might influence library collaboration and interaction on campuses. Institutional contexts and cultures, campus-wide academic priorities, leadership at the library level, and changing roles of librarians were all themes that emerged from this study that are important factors to consider when planning the design, implementation, assessment and dissemination of library SLOs.

scholarly journals Assessment of Student Learning in SocialWork Education: The Indiana Model

10.18060/14 ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry R. Cournoyer
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Accreditation Standards ◽  
Assessment Of Student Learning ◽  
Development Assessment

In this paper, the author discusses assessment of student learning in light of evolving accreditation standards. The author describes the Indiana Model—a comprehensive approach that includes: (a) a Course-Learning Objectives (CLO) classification system to organize and analyze the total array of course learning objectives addressed in a curriculum, (b) a direct Assessment of Student Learning system to demonstrate student learning outcomes, and (c) an indirect Assessment of Student Learning system to provide for the perspectives of consumers and other stakeholders. When integrated, the three systems may be used for curriculum analysis and development, assessment of student learning, and program evaluation—particularly in terms of student learning outcomes. The proposed integrated approach to student learning assessment addresses both university and professional accreditation standards.

scholarly journals Examining the Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary for Use with Latinx Youth

2020 ◽  
pp. 073428292095323
Author(s):  
Tameisha Hinton ◽  
Erin Dowdy ◽  
Michael J. Furlong ◽  
Karen Nylund-Gibson ◽  
Delwin Carter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Latent Trait ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Mean Differences

Culturally responsive assessment practices include validated measures appropriate for use with diverse populations. Considering the increasing population of Latinx students in US schools, measures need co-validated English and Spanish (Social and Emotional Health Survey (SEHS)) language forms. This study examined the SEHS-Secondary with Latinx students who completed a form in either Spanish or English. With a matched sample of 1404 Latinx students across 113 California schools, the analyses examined the factor structure, measurement invariance, and latent trait factor means of students who completed the SEHS in either Spanish or English. The factor structure was invariant across groups with some latent mean differences observed. Educational practice implications are considered.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF MATHEMATICS LEARNING AT SMA NEGERI 2 MASOHI

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Yosep Tetelepta ◽  
Tanwey Gerson Ratumanan ◽  
Christin M Laamena
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Plan Implementation ◽  
Math Teachers ◽  
Learning Plan ◽  
Assessment Format

This study aims to analyze the ability of math teachers in learning plan, implementation of learning, and assessment of the learning process in the implementation of the 2013 curriculum. The research was conducted at SMA Negeri 2 Masohi, involving 5 math teachers, namely the first teacher (G1), the second teacher (G2), the third teacher (G3), the fourth teacher (G4), and the fifth teacher (G5). The data was collected by using an assessment of (1) the lesson implementation plan was prepared by each teacher, (2) the learning process was carried out by the five mathematics teachers, and (3) teachers in the assessment process and the learning outcomes of the students. The instruments consist of 3 (three) assessment formats, namely: (1) RPP assessment format, (2) learning assessment format, and (3) learning result assessment format of learners using assessment scale 0 - 4. The results of the study are as follows: (1) The average RPP assessment of the five teachers is 74.40 and fall into the good category (B), (2) The average learning ability score of the five teachers is 80.00 in the good category (B), and (3) The average ability score of the five teachers in carrying out the assessment of the learners' learning outcomes is 80.71 and fall into the good category (B).

scholarly journals Learning Assessment Practices in Ethiopian Universities: Quests versus Upheavals

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Firdissa Aga
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Behavioral Change ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Academic Unit ◽  
Assessment Guidelines ◽  
Addis Ababa University ◽  
Criterion Referenced ◽  
Assessment Requirements

This study examined learning assessment practices in universities taking one Academic Unit in Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopian as a case. A qualitative approach was employed to generate data from 20 instructors who were attending a capacity building training at the Academic Unit. Supplementary data were secured by reviewing literatures and guidelines. The results have shown that students’ mastery of the learning outcomes (LOs), and achievement of the criterion-referenced assessment requirements were not to the required level. As a result, there were practices of manipulations and invalid subversions of marks bay raising scores without changing the phenomena and without enhancing learning and behavioral change to learners. Moreover, there were no modules designed around competencies with explicit, measurable, and transferable LOs to be assessed. Consequently, the quests and expeditions inherent within the criterion-referenced assessment guidelines were unmet - resulting in matchless upheavals. It has, therefore, been recommended that conscious efforts should be made to make alignments and /or linkages among the salient elements that enhance students’ learning with understanding.

Equitable Assessment Practices

2022 ◽  
pp. 63-84
Author(s):  
Emmy J. Min
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Assessment Practice

The traditional approach to assessment is being reevaluated as a valid and effective language learning assessment tool because it often fails to account for the specific needs, contexts, and backgrounds of language learners. To make assessment processes more equitable, just, and inclusive, this chapter extends the traditional approach to assessment practice by introducing the equity-minded assessment model, which includes six principles for teachers to use as a framework for creating and evaluating assessments: validity, reliability, practicality, authenticity, washback and equity, and justice and inclusion. The author suggests that the model be used to design, administer, and reflect on the effectiveness of the assessment and as a critical reflective framework and not merely as a checklist of items. Thus, this model can serve to make assessments for learning and not just of learning, thereby making the assessment process equitable and inclusive.

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