Alternative Assessment EDER 711: Educational Assessment Group Project

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Alternative AssessmentEDER 711 Educational
AssessmentGroup Project

• Wendy Boer . Kristi Philips . Kristen Pittmann .
  Angela Wiederich

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Outline of Todays Discussion

• Cover important topics
• Make recommendations for use of alternative
  assessment methods
• Useful Websites
• Discuss the questions you have

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Important topics

1. What are non-traditional methods?
2. What are the pros and cons?
3. How do we evaluate it?
4. How will teaching methods evolve?

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What are non-traditional methods?

• Concept Maps Senior Projects
• Collages Simulations
  
• Journaling/Reflections Skits/Plays
• Portfolios Small Groups
• Poster Sessions Student Self-Assessment
• Presentations Student Written Rubric
• Science Fairs Video/Audio Taping
• http//www.essentialschools.org/cs/r
  esources/view/ces_res/127

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What are the pros and cons?

• PROS CONS
• Real-world Time
• Active, group-process Not everyone likes
  groups
• Holistic Analytic Subjective
• Technology Complications
• ? Perceived Competence Cost
• Embraces Individual Against some
  cultural values
• Innovative Lacks structure of uses
• Emphasis on process Doesnt emphasize
  product
• Encourages reflection Daunting
• Broadens perspectives Generalizability
• STUDENT-CENTERED!

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How do we evaluate it?

• Rubrics
• An appropriate method of sampling the desired
  behaviors or products
• A clearly articulated set of performance criteria
  to serve as the basis for evaluative judgment.
• Rubric creating sharing websites
• TeAch-nology.coms Teacher Rubric
  Makers
• www.teach-nology.com/web5ftools/ru
  brics
• Kathy Schroncks Guide for Educators
  Assessment Rubrics
• http//school.discovery.com/schrock
  guide/assess.html

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How do we evaluate it?

• Subject Profiles or Development Achievement
  Maps
• Provide explicit identification of outcomes a
• framework against which an individuals
  progress can be traced.
• 2) Permit use of full range of assessment
  methods
• within a quality assurance framework.

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How will teaching methods evolve?

• -Shift from assessment for grading to
  assessment for learning.
• -Provide explicit criteria
  understandable by learners.
• -Training necessary teachers,
  administrators, policy makers.
• -Must learn to match target with method.
• -Need to maintain positive attitudes
  foster them.
• -Teacher uses as an integral aspect of
  the instructional processes.
• good teaching is inseparable from good
  assessing and both take
• serious consideration, expert skill and committed
  effort.-G. Wiggins
• the accepted philosophy of this approach is
  that assessment
• drives instruction and instruction drives
  assessment.-G. Maeroff

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Recommendations

• Keep a balance of
• Alternative Traditional
• Capture the diverse range of
• learning styles and goals of learners!

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• What questions
• do you have for us?

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References

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  Multidimensional Validity Revisited. Educational
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• Saturday, January 20, 2007 from the EBSCO
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  15sid361e9c2a-5a9e-4893-8ec1-bad50c3628f340SRCS
  M1
• Bass, Jr., G., Geary, W. (1997). Education
  Research Abstracts. Issues in Accounting
  Education, 12(1), 248-252.
• Retrieved Saturday, January 20, 2007 from
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• Gordon, R., Keeping Students at the Center
  Portfolio Assessment at the College Level, The
  Journal of Experiential Education, May, 1994,
• pp.23-27.
• Maeroff, G. I., Assessing Alternative Assessment,
  Phi Delta Kappan, December 1991, pp.273-281.
• Moore, W. (2203). Facts and Assumptions of
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• Popham, J.W. (2006.) Assessment for Educational
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• Stiggins, R. (1991). Facing Challenges of a New
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• Student Portfolios Classroom Uses. (2000.)
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Thank You!

• Wendy Boer
• Kristi Philips
• Kristen Pittmann
• Angela Wiederich