Objectives
  differentiate formative from summative assessment
  demonstrate techniques for formative assessment of learners
  develop and solicit formative assessment of:
   
    communication skills
   
    information literacy
   
    strategic planning/critical reasoning
   
    attitudes and disposition [professionalism]
  X Formative assessment for course or program refinement
      What is Assessment?
  Establishing clear, measurable expected learning 
   outcomes
  Ensuring sufficient opportunities to achieve 
   those outcomes
  Systematic gathering, analysis and interpretation 
   of evidence to determine extent to which (how 
   well) learning matched expectations
  Using the resulting information to understand 
   and improve learning
     General Purpose of Assessment
   • Defines what learners will regard as important – 
    Brown 2001
    –high value placed on marks and grades; 
    –ultimately students focus their efforts on assignments and what 
     they will be tested on
   • Ensures that what is important is learned
      ASSESSMENTS MUST ALIGN WITH 
           EDUCATIONAL GOALS
                Planning Our Teaching
     Traditional Paradigm            New Paradigm
     • What topics should we         • What do students need to 
       teach?                          know? 
                                        – critical understandings, 
     • How do we test that the            theories, models; knowledge, 
                                          skills and attitudes
       topics were learned?          • How will we assess their 
                                       learning? 
     • What are the criteria for     • How do we structure the 
       determining sufficiency of      educational experience to 
       learning (what earns an A,      ensure that they learn?
       B, C, etc)?
           Teacher-Centered                   Learner-Centered
          Characteristics of Assessment
      Summative Assessment                Formative Assessment
  • Objective > Subjective          •  Subjective > Objective
  • Comparative, Relational         •  Personal, Reflective
  • Solitary                        •  Interactive, Social
  • Conclusive, “Add-on”/Post Hoc   •  Midstream, Guiding
  • Retrospective: were goals       •  Prospective: are goals being 
    met?                               met?