41. Evaluate Your Teaching Those of us who have taken the leap into studentactive teaching are now being urged This is similar to the glossary definition of assessment in NSF s http://tiee.ecoed.net/teach/essays/evaluation.html

@import url(../../TIEE_styles.css); TEACHING ALL VOLUMES SUBMIT WORK SEARCH TEACHING TEACHING ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS IN ECOLOGY TEACHING RESOURCES: ESSAYS Evaluate Your Teaching FAQ TUTORIALS ESSAYS GLOSSARY ... LINKS Source: Charlene D'Avanzo. July 2000. Evaluation of Course Reforms: A Primer On What It Is and Why You Should Do It Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America , Volume 81, No. 3, pp. 206-209. What is course evaluation? Some Definitions Examples of Formative Evaluation Techniques Using Rubrics in Summative Evaluations (e.g. tests) ... References What is course evaluation? In colleges and universities nationwide science faculty are changing how they teach to include more student-active approaches. It is difficult to know how widespread or consequential the changes are, but it appears that funding for course reforms from PKal (Project Kalideoscope), NSF and others has paid off. Walk into a random college classroom and the science professor will probably be lecturing, but walk into the class next door and it wouldn't be surprising to see students working on open ended questions in groups or engaged in lively discussion, even if the class is large. What you would be seeing are examples of students taking responsibility for their own learning. Those of us who have taken the leap into student-active teaching are now being urged by our funding sources or workshop leaders to take the next logical step and evaluate our progress. We are being encouraged to ask

42. A Bibliography Of Science Teaching Pedagogy With An Emphasis On Chemistry, Part Courses by Correlating assessment with what We Want to teach, J. Geosci. Heady, JE assessment A Way of Thinking about Learning Now and in the http://www.calstatela.edu/dept/chem/chem2/LACTE/References4.html

A Bibliography of Science Teaching Pedagogy with an Emphasis on Chemistry, Part IV Assessment Updated Part I General Pedagogy Part II Active Learning Part III Cooperative Learning Part IV Assessment Part V Critical Thinking Part VI Writing in the Sciences Part VII Learning Styles Part VIII The Electronic Classroom Part IX Ethics in Science Part X Scientific Literacy Part XI Science Teacher Training Part XII Laboratory Classes Astin, et .al. "Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning," The AAHE Assessment Forum. 1992, 1-4. Atwood, C. H.; Taylor, J. W.; Hutchings, "Why are Chemists and Other Scientists Afraid of Peer review of Teaching?" J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 239-243. Banta, T. W.; Lund, J. P.; Black, K. E.; Oblander, F. W., Assessment in Practice: Putting Principles to Work on College Campuses, Jossey-Mass, San Francisco, 1996. Bass, G. M., Jr., "Evaluating Reform Teaching in College Courses," Journal of Mathematics and Science, 2002, 5, 155-177. Bowe, M.; Jensen, D.; Feland, J.; Self, Brian, "When Multimedia Doesn't Work: An Assessment of Visulaization Modules for Learning Enhancement in Mechanics," IITA Research Publication 3, Education Series, USAFColorado Springs, 2000. Brown, G.; Bull, J.; Pendlebury, M. Assessing Student Learning in Higher Education, 1997, Routledge, New Rork.

43. Prospective Students: Teaching And Learning To achieve these ends, we employ a variety of teaching and assessment methods . The teaching and assessment methods outlined above help our students to http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ec/web/Prospective/Undergrad/teach.html

Department of Economics for Prospective Undergraduates Keele University · Keele · Staffs · ST5 5BG UK Tel: +44 (0)1782 583091 · Fax: +44 (0)1782 717577 · E-Mail: economics@keele.ac.uk Teaching, Learning and Assessment General Aims Strands of Study Three-year Structure Teaching and Assessment ... Course Development and Staff Training General Aims Strands of Study Academic study emphasises the importance of explaining a wide range of real-world issues in terms of a small number of powerful unifying principles. In business-related subjects, this means that students need to develop knowledge and skills in three distinct but interconnected strands of study: Institutional and political background. For example, in Economics , students need to learn about the economic role of the Bank of England or the main features of current international trade agreements. In Finance , students need to learn about the working of the major financial markets and about the principles hat govern the valuation of firms under current accountancy regulations. Similarly, in

44. PEC: Why Assess In Physical Education Article While this might not sound very new, after all most of us who teach PE don t have this much time to spend on assessment. I won t have any time to teach. http://www.pecentral.org/assessment/assessmentresearch.html

Why Assess in Physical Education? April 16, 1997 By Stephen Jefferies, Toni Jefferies, and Wendy Mustain A major implication of educational reform presently occurring in many states is the expectation that teachers should be able to show what students are learning as a result of their participation in physical education. While this might not sound very new, after all most of us who teach PE obviously know what we are teaching, some different expectations need to be appreciated. First, stating what you are teaching (e.g. basketball dribbling, shooting, and passing) does not adequately answer the question, What are the students learning? In view of the vastly different skill levels of students entering many PE classes, what each individual student will learn by the end of the class will also be different. Second, you should anticipate being able to answer a parent who poses the question, What is my son/daughter learning? or even more specifically, What is it that my daughter/son will be able to do after this class that s/he couldn't do before? Responding to such questions will demand information that many of us do not presently have available.

45. Liberal Education - Feature Article in assessment s relevance (applicability to classroom teaching and but unless assessment is constructively linked to the courses they teach, http://www.aacu-edu.org/liberaleducation/le-fa01/le-fa01feature2.cfm

Liberal Education Fall 2001 Volume 87, Number 4 Assessing the Assessment Decade Michael J. Strada The North Central Association of Colleges and Schools has stated concisely that "Programs to assess student learning should emerge from, and be sustained by, a faculty and administrative commitment to excellent teaching and learning" (NCA 2000, 32). But excellence seems to represent a moving target. As Winona State University Assessment Director Susan Hatfield (1999) points out, the validation of excellence in higher education has shifted from an earlier emphasis on inputs and processes to a more recent focus on outcomes. This fundamental change is only one of several imbalances in the practice of assessment that cry out for equilibrium. In "A Matter of Choices," Palomba and Banta (1999, 331) write that assessment can be conducted in various legitimate ways. "As such, the process of planning and implementing assessment programs requires many choices," between philosophically different alternatives. However, these pairs of alternatives need not be seen as mutually exclusive; in fact, they should complement each other in striking "a balance that works." They discuss three critical sets of choices that institutions must face in quest of balanced assessment: improvement versus accountability as motivations for assessment quantitative versus qualitative means of assessment course-based versus non-course models of assessment.

46. Chemical Engineering And Advanced Materials At The University Of Newcastle Upon Teaching and assessment maximum scores of 4/4 in Curriculum Design, Contentand Organisation; Teaching, Learning and assessment; and Learning Resources. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ceam/undergrad/ug-teach.htm

Home Contacts Search About ... Facilities UNDERGRADUATE Degree Programmes Entry Requirements Industrial Year Teaching and Assessment ... Resources and Links Teaching and Assessment We achieved maximum scores of 4/4 in Curriculum Design, Content and Organisation; Teaching, Learning and Assessment; and Learning Resources. The University of Newcastle upon Tyne has again been praised by the Sunday Times University Guide 2005 for its teaching excellence across all disciplines. [ more When the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) carried out its independent assessment of all Chemical Engineering departments, we achieved an excellent score of 21 out of 24. This reflects our commitment to providing high-quality teaching to all our students. We teach the modules through a combination of lectures, tutorials (small classes in which you work through technical problems) and practical work - two afternoons per week in Stage 1, which includes a module in Computing. Since its inception in 1998, our students have always done well in the

47. NC Teach: Online Resources -- Assessment North Carolina teachers of Excellence for All CHildren, NC teach “IntegratingAssessment and Instruction in Ways That Support Learning” http://ncteach.ga.unc.edu/o_assessment.html

Online Resources Assessment Educational Testing Service Includes topics of current interest, as well as information about the tests prepared and scored by ETS. Ericae.net Clearinghouse for assessment, evaluation, and research information. “Improving America’s Schools: A Newsletter of Issues in School Reform” Series of newsletters that address key topics in improving America’s schools. “Integrating Assessment and Instruction in Ways That Support Learning” “School communities use assessment results in a formative way to determine how well they are meeting instructional goals and how to alter curriculum and instruction so that goals can be better met. But unless the content of assessment (what schools assess) and the format of assessment (how schools assess) match what is taught and how it is taught, the results are meaningless, if not potentially harmful.” National Assessment Governing Board Gives assessment data. The governing board is an independent bipartisan group, which sets the policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), sometimes called the National Report Card. National Association of Test Directors Web site for a professional organization responsible for administering assessment programs K-12 in public educational settings. There are a variety of resources ranging from book reviews, testing practices, fairness, and other issues related to national tests.

48. Great Scientific Debates: Using IMovie To Teach History And The Nature Of Scient Using iMovie to teach History and the Nature of Scientific Inquiry assessment This test is an example assessment given to students to see how they http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000765/Assessment.html

Apple Learning Interchange Teaching Practices Home Support ... Site Map Search Teaching Practice Great Scientific Debates: Using iMovie to Teach History and the Nature of Scientific Inquiry ASSESSMENT Views on the Nature of Science Part of assessing the impact of a project like this requires that we learn something about shifts in students’ beliefs. Engaging children in activities that require the construction of arguments and the competition of ideas using real world data often impacts the way students think, write, speak, and even draw. One instrument that has been used for over two decades by researchers to measure the philosophical changes in students' beliefs is the Draw a Scientist test. This is an instrument that has given insight into where students position themselves within the discipline of science, and whether they think science is only performed by men in white lab coats. This Draw a Scientist test was given only as a part of a larger post assessment of the students' Views on the Nature Of Science assessment (VNOS), though this is often given as a pre and post assessment. Example student drawings and interpretations are given in the Reflections section of this exhibit. Click on the download icon to download PDF Example Short Answer Test For 8 weeks students learned through data collection, computer simulations, and hands-on science activities about various science concepts. Throughout the science lessons, students were given assignments to explore the historical origins of these concepts and the personalities who invented them. After students conducted research and produced their stories for their historical scientific debate, students shared their movies. Students learned from each other's movies some of the nuances of the debates that surrounded their scientist's contribution. This test is an example assessment given to students to see how they connected evidence to theories and retained some individuals' histories.

49. Assessment Parker Palmer, in his book, The Courage to teach, said. Resources that help usteach better are available from each other—if we could get access to them. http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/deli/exhibits/1000347/

Opening Classroom Doors: Assessment INTRODUCTION The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards presents the exhibits Opening Classroom Doors . These exhibits of teaching practice feature National Board Certified Teachers from the Digital Edge project in minimally edited video from their classrooms. Each video segment and its accompanying text and commentary provide an insight, a peek into the classrooms of these accomplished teachers. National Board Certification is an honor bestowed on teachers who submit their practice to peer scrutiny and evaluation. Each National Board Certified Teacher has demonstrated that he or she has met or exceeded the standards for the individual area of expertise developed by practicing teachers and other experts in the field of education. Content knowledge and pedagogical expertise were assessed in a rigorous performance-based portfolio submission and essay test. These teachers are truly the master teachers in the country today. Parker Palmer, in his book, The Courage to Teach , said: "Resources that help us teach better are available from each other—if we could get access to them. But there, of course, is the rub. Academic culture builds barriers between colleagues even higher and wider than those between us and our students. These barriers come partly from the competition that keeps us fragmented by fear. But they also come from the fact that teaching is perhaps the most privatized of all the public professions.

50. IN-COURSE ASSESSMENT INCOURSE assessment. More effective teaching may also result from a change inthe way you gather information about what students are learning. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CTL/teach/handbook/assessment.html

IN-COURSE ASSESSMENT However, many teachers also know that opening a dialogue with students, even in a large class, helps improve the quality of their course. When teachers ask "how much of what I’m teaching are students learning?" and when they get specific kinds of feedback to answer this question, they can better focus their teaching. In effect, they can then begin to determine what is and isn’t working in the classroom. Documented Problem Solution: rather than simply requiring students to do a number of problems for homework, the instructor asks students to solve a problem, but also to write down step-by-step what they were thinking at each stage of the problem-solving process. Reading through these solutions gives an instructor a sense of how well the students are developing their general problem-solving skills, and can help him or her determine how much class time should focus on improving this academic skill. One-minute papers: the teacher ends class a few minutes early and asks one or two questions which students answer, on an index card or half sheet of paper, and hand in. Questions often asked are "What were the main points of today’s class?" or "What was the muddiest point in today’s lecture?" Even in a large class, reading through student responses takes relatively little time. Teachers can then explain at the next class session whether the majority of the class has grasped the important material, and can also address questions or problems students have raised. This is an example of assessing teaching effectiveness.

51. Policy On Assessment Of Teaching Effectiveness (DRAFT) The results of the annual assessment of teaching effectiveness should informefforts to improve instruction. As appropriate, the chair should use these http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwcas/policy/teach.html

52. Information Literacy: Assessment Plan focus on faculty teaching styles; assessment of subject matter, Studentsdevelop learning activities to teach lower level students basic information http://www.indiana.edu/~libinstr/Information_Literacy/assessment.html

Information Literacy AN ASSESSMENT PLAN FOR INFORMATION LITERACY Assessment Planning Committee Indiana University Bloomington Libraries May 1, 1996 (Final) TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THIS DOCUMENT Introduction Assumptions Definition, Goals, and Objectives Basic Information Literacy ... Measurement Techniques At Indiana University Bloomington, assessment refers to research and inquiry into the improvement of teaching and learning. Assessment is a process in which goals and learning objectives of a program or course are identified and data are collected from multiple sources to document student, teacher, or program achievement of those goals and objectives. Multiple variations are possible: pre-test, post-test of students in a course or major; focus on faculty teaching styles; assessment of subject matter, learning or critical thinking skills; review of departmental goals and objectives, or other creative efforts generated by faculty or departments. ( Handbook of Assessment Strategies: Measure of Student Learning and Program Quality , 1993, p. 4)

53. Teach Online - PEDAGOGY And TECHNIQUES - Assessment - Intro assessment Hybrid Courses Fully Online Classes Course Structure Design Links Resources. PEDAGOGY and TECHNIQUES, Michigan State University http://teachvu.vu.msu.edu/public/pedagogy/assessment/

Search TeachOnline Online Course Content Powerpoint Video Audio ... Fully Online Classes PEDAGOGY and TECHNIQUES Assessment: Intro General Discussion Quizzes and Exams Other Kinds of Assessments Syllabus Suggestions Intro Contents Intro (Current Page) General Discussion Quizzes and Exams Other Kinds of Assessments Syllabus Suggestions Click on a topic. Grading student performance in an online course is a lot like grading students in the classroom. Depending on each individual course pedagogy, performance evaluation can be based on writing an individual paper, preparing a group presentation, creative portfolios, web sites, class participation, attendance, homework problem sets, exams (essay, short answer, multiple choice, true false), and so on.

54. USDA Regional Teaching Workshops And Awards Programs 14th Annual Northeast Regional Teaching Workshop September 29 October 1, 2005 Designing a Program-Based assessment Plan in the Humanities http://teach-usda.ahnrit.vt.edu/workshops/northeastern/

@import "/css/teach_USDA.css"; Regional Teaching Workshops and Awards Programs [Skip Navigation] Home Site Map Feedback ... About this website Teaching Awards Awards History Nomination Guidelines Awards Recipients Regional Teaching Workshops Funding Available Northeastern North-central Southern ... Western Best Practices in Teaching Presentations Exemplary Teaching Practices This website funded by the Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service of the USDA. Powered by the University of Wyoming and The AHNR-IT Department of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech. Northeastern Region Workshop Information Cornell University 14th Annual Northeast Regional Teaching Workshop September 29 - October 1, 2005 Green Hall, University of Rhode Island. Picture credit: Nora Lewis 13th Annual Northeast Regional Teaching Workshop September 30 - October 2, 2004 Outcomes Assessment: Electronic Student Portfolios, Ensuring Institutional Effectiveness A Workshop Jointly Sponsored by the University of Rhode Island's College of the Environment and Life Sciences and the Northeast Region of the Academic Programs Section of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) Thursday, September 30

55. Helping Teachers To Teach: 6+1 Traits Writing Assessment Selected After Two-Year Helping teachers to teach 6+1 Traits Writing assessment Selected After TwoYearStudy. The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory s 6+1 Traits Writing http://www.relnetwork.org/news/news16.html

@import "http://www.relnetwork.org/newsadv.css"; Site Search: advanced search Home What is the REL Network? ... Request Information June 1, 1999 Helping Teachers to Teach: 6+1 Traits Writing Assessment Selected After Two-Year Study The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory's 6+1 Traits Writing Assessment model is one of 26 professional development programs selected, from 500 across the country, for inclusion in What Works in the Middle: Results-Based Staff Development for the Middle Grades . The programs were selected after an indepth, two-year study by the National Staff Development Council . The study was supported by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. According to the council's RESULTS newsletter , "more than 80 percent of the nominated programs were eliminated because they lacked evidence of impact on student achievement. About 80 projects were chosen for the second level of review; only half of those were selected for the final intensive review. "These programs have demonstrated improved student achievement in the core content areas of language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies by increasing teachers' knowledge and skills," the newsletter said. NWREL's model for assessing and teaching writing is being used by teachers in thousands of schools across the country. The model compares six key qualities that define strong writing: (1) ideas, (2) organization, (3) voice, (4) word choice, (5) sentence fluency, and (6) conventions-plus presentation.

56. Teaching Strategies: Dynamic Curriculum, Assessment, And Training For Early Chil Comprehensive curriculum, assessment, and training resources for early childhoodeducators. The online home of The Creative Curriculum®, brought to you by http://www.teachingstrategies.com/

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58. TEACHING TIPS INSTRUCTIONAL assessment TECHNIQUES. Classroom assessment Techniques, Techniques forbetter teaching and learning. Classroom assessment Examples, Five http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teacht

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59. Assessment Workshop Series Integrating assessment Into Your Teaching Practice Presented on March 12 Viewthe Powerpoint Presentation Integrating assessments into classroom activities http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/assessment/workshops/

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60. ASCD | For The Success Of Each Learner arrow 2005 Conference on Teaching Learning—Student Achievement The Read thelatest ASCD Infobrief, A Policymaker s Primer on Testing and assessment. http://www.ascd.org/

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