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KNOWLEDGE SURVEYS AS AN ALTERNATIVE OR ADDITIONAL ASSESSMENT TOOL IN THE CLASSROOM

Tom Hickson, Department of Geology. KNOWLEDGE SURVEYS AS AN ALTERNATIVE OR ADDITIONAL ASSESSMENT TOOL IN THE CLASSROOM. Let’s cut to the chase…. How would you interpret these data?. Confident. Not confident. N = ~60 students. Roadmap…. Motivation What is a Knowledge Survey?

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KNOWLEDGE SURVEYS AS AN ALTERNATIVE OR ADDITIONAL ASSESSMENT TOOL IN THE CLASSROOM

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  1. Tom Hickson, Department of Geology KNOWLEDGE SURVEYS AS AN ALTERNATIVE OR ADDITIONAL ASSESSMENT TOOL IN THE CLASSROOM

  2. Let’s cut to the chase… How would you interpret these data? Confident Not confident N = ~60 students

  3. Roadmap… • Motivation • What is a Knowledge Survey? • Applications of Knowledge Surveys • Implementation Here at UST

  4. Motivation Ideally, our course organization, content, and learning goals all work together to maximize student learning

  5. Motivation • I was looking to forge a more direct link between my course goals, organization and content • I wanted to know what my students thought they knew • I wanted a low stakes pre- and post-course assessment • I wanted something that was data-rich and fairly detailed • I wanted something easy to administer and analyze

  6. What is a KS?

  7. What is a KS? • Questions that cover course content. • Organized by main content areas. • May be coded to Bloom’s Taxonomy. • Students do not answer the questions. • Students rank their ability to answer the questions on a Likert-type scale. • For my courses, between 70 and 150 questions.

  8. What is a KS?

  9. What is a KS?

  10. What is a KS?

  11. What is a KS? Source: Nuhfer & Knipp, 2003

  12. Applications

  13. Course planning

  14. Assessing student progress in a course

  15. Assessing student progress in a course

  16. Connecting material to Bloom’s taxonomy GEOL 320: Sedimentology & Stratigraphy

  17. Connecting material to Bloom’s taxonomy

  18. Assessing metacognition

  19. Assessing metacognition

  20. Assessing how well I addressed content

  21. Assessing how well content is addressed or even duplicated Source: Knufer and Knipp, 2003

  22. As a departmental assessment tool • One of three assessment tools we use • 188 questions that cover our entire curriculum • Administered to all graduating students on our departmental “assessment day” in the spring • Called the “Senior Exit and Knowledge Survey” (yes, the “SEKS”)

  23. As a departmental assessment tool

  24. As a departmental assessment tool

  25. Other benefits • Students see entire course content: no mysteries • Used as a study guide, students learn to self-assess • At completion of course, provides students with a detailed snapshot of what they have learned

  26. Implementation • Excel • Blackboard • A template for processing data

  27. Implementation: Excel

  28. Implementation: Excel

  29. Implementation: Blackboard

  30. Implementation: Blackboard • Give the KS as a TEST, not a survey • In Blackboard, surveys are anonymous. We don’t want that • Take class time to do it • Can give it as a first homework as well. • Download the data from Blackboard back to Excel to analyze

  31. Implementation: Blackboard

  32. Implementation: Blackboard

  33. Resources

  34. Resources • Nuhfer, E. and Knipp, D., 2003, The Knowledge Survey: A Tool for All Reasons, To Improve the Academy, v. 21, pp. 59 78. • Science Education Resource Center (SERC) • Perkins, D. and Wirth, K., Knowledge Surveys: Applications and Results

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