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“Nobody Told Me!” Creating an Assessment Preparation Tutorial. Dr. Chelley Maple Director, Matriculation College of the Canyons. Agenda. Different preparation models Identify issues and goals How to design a tutorial Working with available resources Research Discussion.
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“Nobody Told Me!”Creating an Assessment Preparation Tutorial Dr. Chelley MapleDirector, MatriculationCollege of the Canyons
Agenda Different preparation models Identify issues and goals How to design a tutorial Working with available resources Research Discussion
Designing a preparation tutorial • What do you want to say? • Who are you speaking to? • What result do you want to see? • What do you want the response to be?
Purpose of the Canyons tutorial • Provide quality preparation information on content and format to new entering students • Change the attitude • Encourage students to take personal responsibility for being prepared for college. • Increasing faculty confidence in the accuracy of placement. • Decreasing the number of complaints to administration from both students and parents. • Provide a tool to high school counselors and advisors for use in advising high school students. • Change the perception that students have no control over their score and placement is something done TO them.
How to do a tutorial • Set up a design crew • Scripts • Assessment example handout • Write out the script first • Organize the progression of ideas
Storyboards • The best thing since the automatic outline format. Why? • They force you to be concise • Easy to see when you are going off topic. • Can Google free storyboard templates or make your own
Set up a production crew Reliance on available resources • Audio Visual department for cameras • Media students for camera work • Theatre students as actors • Campus public information office for tone and flow of the information • Counselors, instructors, and Assessment Center staff as script editors • Post production editing most valuable resource.
Research “One Shot Deal? Students perceptions of assessment and course placement in California’s community colleges.” Venezia, A., Bracco, K.R. & Nodine, T. (2010) San Francisco: WestEd “This study found that students in California’s community colleges generally experience assessment and placement not as a process for which they begin preparing in high school, but as a single event- a one shot deal, with pivotal consequences, for which many feel uninformed and underprepared.”
Recommnendations • The WestEd study has several worthy recommendations but this one provided the impetus to develop a tutorial. • “Community colleges should devlop clear messages about assessment and placement, pilot different approaches to communicating this information to high school students, and determine which one is most effective.”