My Field Study Question
How can different types of assessment influence student understanding and attitudes towards learning?
Subquestions
Types of assessment?
Formative vs. summative
Ongoing vs. at the end
Self assessment
Peer assessment
Quiz show
Clickers
Curriculum based tests
Class based assessment
How do I define understanding?
How do I measure a level of understanding?
Can I make assessment based on individual students?
June 29th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Good start to your field study question. Need to develop/expand your thoughts.
Interesting dilemma that facebook presents educators. If the students will use the ‘tool’ to learn why stop them? However, some students, say in my lab, abuse the use of facebook and are chatting to friends at home or at another computer somewhere else in the school. Definitely not on task.
How can you assess group collaboration on facebook, or a wiki, or without any technology at all. Will using technology instead of chart paper encourage students to engage earlier, longer, faster, with more depth, etc. Should the actual assessment METHOD influence their understanding and attitudes toward learning? Should marks drive the learning? Should assessment drive the learning? How can educators excite students to learn? Will using technology do this?