Evidencebased Practice

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Qualitative Assessment

• Evidence-based Practice
• Anthony Garrison

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James GeeLearning and Video Games

• 9 - Self-Knowledge Principle
• The virtual world is constructed in such a way
  that learners learn not only about the domain but
  about themselves and their current and potential
  capacities
• 9 - Translation
• The classroom learning environment should be
  structured in such a way that learners not only
  learn about the content but about themselves and
  their current and potential learning abilities.

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• 11 - Achievement Principle
• For learners of all levels of skill there are
  intrinsic rewards from the beginning, customized
  to each learners level, effort, and growing
  mastery and signaling the learners ongoing
  achievements.
• What are the intrinsic rewards in our classes?
• How are they customized for students?
• How do students receive ongoing achievement
  signals?

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Lets Get on the Same Page

• Qualitative less rigorous than Quantitative
  for us non-math people
• Assessment Grades on assignments leading to a
  course grade

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AssessmentGroup Work!

• What is the role of assessment in our classrooms?
  
• Draw a diagram of how assessment fits into your
  pedagogy
• How often does assessment occur in our
  classrooms?
• Who benefits most from assessment
  (student/teacher/university)?
• Can we eliminate assessment for the sake of
  learning?

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Assessment Defined

• Peggy Macki - a systematic and systemic process
  of inquiry into what and how well students learn
  over the progression of their studies . . .
  Driven by intellectual curiosity about the
  efficacy of collective educational practices
• In what ways is assessment Systematic?
• Systemic?

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Hunting and Gathering

• The 80/20 rule
• 80 is gathered and 20 is hunted
• Formative assessment is gathered over time from a
  variety of sources and shapes current practice
• Summative assessment occurs at the conclusion of
  significant chunks of semester and informs future
  practice

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80/20 An Assessment Inventory

• List the formative assessments that already occur
  in your classrooms
• List the summative assessments that occur in your
  classrooms
• Mark each item as Q (qualitative) and
  (quantitative)
• Q Subjective, informal/formal
• Objective, informal/formal

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What We Can Assess

• Knowledge Skills
• Prior knowledge, recall, understanding, critical
  thinking, creative thinking, problem solving,
  performance, etc
• Attitudes, Values Self-Awareness
• Reaction to Instruction
• Teachers, teaching, activities, assignments,
  materials, etc

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Sample Qualitative Assessments to Try

• Background Knowledge Probe
• Open ended questions
• 5 minute discussion board entries (read and write
  then discuss)
• Student on-the-spot summaries/guesses

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• Focused Listing
• Timed lists
• of items per list
• Memory Matrix
• France U.S. Britain
• Neoclassicism
• Impressionism
• Expressionism
• Muddiest Point
• What was the muddiest point in__________?

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• Analytic Memo
• 1-2pp memo to employer analyzing specific issue
• 1 Sentence Summary
• WDWWWWHW (who does what to whom, when, where,
  how, and why)
• Ex- Thomas Angelo argues teachers should asses
  their students learning regularly during the
  semester in their own classrooms using . . .
  qualitative means so that they can understand
  and improve teaching

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• Invented Dialogues
• Move from conversational issue into a dialogue
  (role-play)
• Documented Problem Solutions
• Students try to solve a content specific problem
  and document how they tried to solve it
• Double-Entry Journals
• Left Principle Right Personal App

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• Chain Notes
• Envelope/note cards/questions - Pass around
• Peer/Group/Self Evaluations
• Random reports back to teacher about learning
  practices, achievements, stumbling blocks
• Exam Evaluations
• Feedback elicited from students post exam on
  varying issues