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Why Three is Better Than One: Assessing Across Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors. Scott W. Brown and Anthony Artino, Jr. Educational Psychology Department University of Connecticut April 14, 2008. 3 Is Better Than 1. Why We Assess Things. Demonstrate change / impact.
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Why Three is Better Than One: Assessing Across Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors Scott W. Brown and Anthony Artino, Jr.Educational Psychology DepartmentUniversity of Connecticut April 14, 2008
Why We Assess Things • Demonstrate change / impact. • Adjust / refine curricula. • To document effective practices. • Enable transfer to other settings. • Demonstrate value of products / activities.
Bloom’s Domains of Learning • Cognitive • Affective • Psychomotor
Cognitive Domain • Knowledge • Comprehension • Application • Analysis • Synthesis • Evaluation
Affective • Receiving (attending) • Responding • Valuing • Organization • Characterization by value
Psychomotor Domain • Perception (attending) • Set • Guided Response • Mechanism • Complex Response • Adaptation • Origination
Our General Procedure:What We Measure - KABs • Knowledge • Attitudes • Behaviors • Examples • CDC seatbelts • Lyme Disease Education Based on Bloom’s cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains.
Our Approach • Pre-test and Post-test data • Measure change • Predicting success • Formative for continuous quality improvement • Use of Likert-type Scales – self-report • Strongly disagree to Strongly agree (Knowledge and Attitudes) • Never to Frequently (Behaviors) • Concept Maps • Interviews/Focus groups • Observations • Performance-based assessment
KABs – topic related! • What do you know about it? • How do you feel about it? • Do you believe you can do it? • Bandura 1997 Self-Efficacy • What do you do?
KABs in Practice • GlobalEd • HETAP • Classroom of the Sea • Distance Education