1. Assessment Classroom Techniques
Tonight’s Agenda:
My Powerpoint
Dave Ayers – Distance Ed Quality
Melissa Bice - Training

2. Goal - Inventory
Without clear goals, we cannot readily assess the effectiveness of our efforts…
Are we on course
Off course
How do we get back on track
Purpose is 3-fold: 1)help instructors become more aware of what goals they want to accomplish in individual courses, 2) help instructors locate classroom assessment techniques, 3) provide a starting point for learning goals among instructors

3. Techniques for assess course-related knowledge and skills (CATs)
Background Knowledge Probe
Muddiest Point
Pro and Con Grid
Application Cards
Classroom Opinion Polls
Focused autobiographical sketches
Short simple questionnaires prepared by instructors for use at the beginning of a course or at the start of new units or topics.
Simplest …students respond to one question. What was the muddiest point in …?
Students list pros/cons, costs/benefits, advantages/disadvantages of an issue, question or value of competing claims.
Application cards: students generate examples of real-work applications for important principles, generalizations, theories or procedures
Students indicate degree of agreement or disagreement with a statement or prompt.
Students write a brief description of a successful learning experience they had relevant to the course material.

4. Other CATs Misconception/Preconception Check Empty Outlines
Minute Paper
One sentence summary “Who does what to whom, when, where, how, and why?” (WDWWWWHW)
Journal
Portfolios –gather work over a semester
Audio and Videotaped Protocols – students work through a problem solving process and it is captured to allow instructors to assess metacognition (learner’s awareness of an control of thinking)

5. Rubrics – Online discussion?