Evaluation of Students

1. Evaluation of Students Summer Teaching Institute 2011

2. Why Evaluate Students? • Summative Assessment • Formative Assessment

3. What are some of the challenges in evaluating student learning?

4. How do you evaluate student learning in your courses?

5. BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMYCreatingGenerating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing thingsDesigning, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.EvaluatingJustifying a decision or course of actionChecking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging AnalysingBreaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationshipsComparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating, findingApplyingUsing information in another familiar situationImplementing, carrying out, using, executingUnderstandingExplaining ideas or conceptsInterpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying, explainingRememberingRecalling informationRecognising, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding Higher-order thinking

6. Exercise: Write Questions • With a specific course in mind, write one question for each level in Bloom’s revised taxonomy (e.g., Likert, numeric, multi-choice, matching, etc.). • Remembering • Understanding • Applying • Analyzing • Evaluating • Creating

8. Share Examples