Assessment Tamara Trujillo Guest: Kristy Pruitt

Assessment: Enhance Student Learning Through Engagement Admit: What are ways to collect meaningful feedback from students via informal assessment techniques? *share responses (volunteers) An admit slip is a student's entry ticket into class. It is filled out before the class begins or during the first few minutes of class.

Engagement and SLOs… As we focus on Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs), we are reminded to measure student performance accurately while not letting the measure alter the course grade. In other words, the SLO performance measure is a separate measure from the Course assigned grade. How do we engage students to perform accurately?...

Types of Informal Assessments that promote student learning through engagement: Use Effective Questions: Questions are a way of engaging with students to keep their attention and to reinforce their participation. Questions can be used to stimulate discussion. Questions can help evaluate student understanding of material. Facilitate Discussions: Make learning active. Help build community. Enable students to participate as co-creators of knowledge. Develop students’ ability to demonstrate ideas and meanings. Facilitate Active Learning: Activities that you can use to help students be actively involved in their learning? (provide handout on examples of active learning activities) Cornell University, (2016). Center for Teaching Excellence Website. Retrieved from

Let’s collaborate… Expand on the admit…What are ways to collect meaningful feedback from students via informal assessment techniques? * Work cooperatively and collaboratively in groups to brainstorm ideas Thinking Maps Copies of SLOs 15 minutes

Thinking Maps (Bubble Map example):

Share Thinking Maps and Exit Share Exit: What is a “take away” from today’s workshop? Students are allowed to exit the classroom when they submit an exit slip to the teacher.

Thank you!