scholarly journals Interpret with Caution: COPUS Instructional Styles May Not Differ in Terms of Practices That Support Student Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. ar26
Author(s):  
Melody McConnell ◽  
Jeffrey Boyer ◽  
Lisa M. Montplaisir ◽  
Jessie B. Arneson ◽  
Rachel L.S. Harding ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Classroom Observation ◽  
Classroom Behaviors ◽  
Observation Protocol ◽  
Instructional Styles

The Classroom Observation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM (COPUS) instructional styles reliably distinguish between frequency patterns of classroom behaviors, but do not readily discern differences in formative assessment and feedback. Given the positive relationship between formative assessment and student learning, this study highlights the limitations of the COPUS in documenting the results of STEM reform.

scholarly journals Do We Need to Redesign the Current Assessment System in Bangladesh? A Review of Theory and Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Faieza Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Summative Assessment ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Summative Assessments ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Current Assessment ◽  
Improve Student Learning

 In this current age of highly competitive global environment, teachers are under tremendous pressure to assess student learning in the most effective manner. Two tools that teachers commonly utilize to assess students in their classes are formative and summative assessment. In formative assessment, teachers gather data in order to improve student learning and in summative assessment they use the data to assess students’ learning at the end of a specific course of study. The scores on both types of assessment should meet the minimum standards of both reliability and validity. In this article we highlight the differences between the two forms of assessment, discuss the theories pertaining to summative and formative assessment, identify how educators at tertiary level in Bangladesh commonly utilize the two types of assessment and disclose opinions of teachers regarding whether the current assessment system is appropriate or need any further improvements. Findings from the study indicate that most teachers have an incomplete and unharmonious understanding about assessment often failing to clearly distinguish between formative and summative assessments.

scholarly journals English Writing Formative Assessment in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Musa
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Classroom Observation ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Performance Tasks ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Short Answer ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
Assessment Techniques ◽  
Construction Task

This study aimed to investigate the assessment techniques used by a teacher in assessing students’ writing skills, the reason in implementing the techniques, and the students’ responses toward the implementation of the techniques. The collected data in this study included classroom observation that had been held in three times, interview, and written document. The following is the conclusions based on the data analysis. Since formative assessment of writing skill is the main focus of this study, the teacher implemented five writing performance tasks suggested by Brown (2010) namely dicto-comp, picture-cued task, short answer task, guided question and answer, and paragraph construction task. From the teaching process done by the teacher, the assessment tasks were implemented for formative purposes, that is, to monitor students’ progress in comprehending the lesson that is about narrative text. The teacher implemented some assessment tasks in an informal way to monitor students’ ongoing progress without recording the result of the performance, while the other tasks were implemented in a formal way to record students’ progress and to give them an appraisal of their progress and achievement.

How Teacher Questions Facilitate Student Learning in EFL Class

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Anh Hao ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Small Proportion ◽  
Classroom Discourse ◽  
Classroom Observation ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Teacher Questions ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Quantitative Content

Abstract Questioning is considered as one of the most dominant features in virtually every classroom discourse. This study aims at examining the types and functions of teacher questions that facilitate student learning in an EFL class in Vietnam. The classification of questions employed in the study follows the work proposed by Richards and Lockhart in 2007. Participants in the research were one teacher and 25 students in an English university class in Vietnam. The data was collected through classroom observation and audio recording. Both qualitative and quantitative content analysis were utilized to analyze the data. The findings of the study indicate that the most frequently used question types were convergent and divergent questions, and procedural questions only accounted for a small proportion. Furthermore, it was found that convergent questions were employed to check and guide students’ understanding of the lesson’s target lexical items, while divergent ones were used to promote students’ further analysis and their own evaluation of the knowledge provided in the study material. Finally, procedural questions were chiefly posed when the teacher monitored students in class activities. Keywords: classroom discourse, classroom interaction, teacher questions

Designing and Evaluating Technology-Based Formative Assessments

2019 ◽  
pp. 222-244
Author(s):  
Emtinan Alqurashi ◽  
Ariel R. Siegelman
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Bloom's Taxonomy ◽  
Formative Assessments ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy ◽  
Bloom’S Taxonomy ◽  
Technology Tool ◽  
Improve Student Learning

Formative assessments aligned with learning goals can improve student learning. Integrating technology into formative assessments can further enhance and transform the learning experience. This chapter focuses on how instructors can design and evaluate formative assessment activities that incorporate technology. It provides a practical guide for understanding how to apply the revised Bloom's taxonomy framework and the substitution, augmentation, modification, redefinition (SAMR) model to create meaningful technology-based formative assessments. This chapter includes evaluations of example technology-based formative assessments that align with learning goals based on Bloom's taxonomy. It determines if the technology used to either substitute or improve the functionality of the activity, enables the redesign of an entire activity, or yields a new activity that is impossible without the technology. This information can be applied to ensure the integrity of technology-based formative assessments and to determine if using a technology tool in a formative assessment is worthwhile.

Using Feedback on Formative Assessment to Support Student Learning and Improve the Curriculum for Material in a Civil Engineering Module

2019 ◽  
pp. 165-179
Author(s):  
Jonathan Oti
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Formative Feedback ◽  
Laboratory Report ◽  
And Performance

This chapter reports on the potential of using formative feedback on assessment to support student learning and improve the curriculum for material in a civil engineering module. Under this study, when the students were given the feedback of their assessment on a piece of coursework, they were asked to repeat the coursework taking on board all the comments and feedback provided by the lecturer in exchange for a better mark. The overall result from the quantitative data suggests that students overwhelmingly took the corrections on board and submitted a more improved laboratory report in order to have an improved mark. The students enjoyed the praise, progress, and critique comments on their feedback sheet. Their understanding of the module grew, and their motivation and performance increased. Generalized comments like referencing and citations unified the entire curriculum.

Self-Assessment in Building Online Communities of Learning

2009 ◽  
pp. 431-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Weller Swanson ◽  
Mary Kayler
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Online Learning Communities ◽  
Advance Student ◽  
Assessment Techniques ◽  
Evaluation Of Learning ◽  
Goals And Objectives

The incorporation of self-assessment techniques and opportunities within the online learning process can enhance student learning and support the development of self-directed learners. Formative assessment (evaluation of learning in process) enables students to take ownership of their learning and to also evaluate their learning in relationship to required course goals and objectives. Formative assessment use within online learning communities works to create strong communities of practice (student learning in relationship with peers); a constructivist orientation towards learning. Accountability for learning in conjunction with peers can support and advance student learning experiences, encourage active engagement, and provide authentic experiences that advance students’ understanding of their own developmental framework and the transformative nature of learning theories.

Teaching Routines to Enhance Collaboration Using Classroom Network Technology

2011 ◽  
pp. 224-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Haydel DeBarger ◽  
William R. Penuel ◽  
Christopher J. Harris ◽  
Patricia Schank
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Network Technology ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Perceived Utility ◽  
Assessment Of Student Learning

This chapter presents an argument for the use of teaching routines (pedagogical patterns) to engage students in collaborative learning activities using the Group Scribbles classroom network technology. Teaching routines are a resource for structuring student opportunities to learn within lessons. They address known challenges associated with making the most of classroom network technology by scaffolding teacher enactment, enabling contingent teaching, and providing an anchor for expanding practice. In this chapter, the authors articulate the theoretical and empirical basis for using teaching routines to support diagnostic interactive formative assessment of student learning. The authors describe the goals and features of routines, types of collaboration instantiated in the routines, technological aspects of Group Scribbles, teachers’ perceived utility of the routines, and anticipated implementation challenges of the routines within lessons designed for middle school Earth science.

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