Transcript deep learning Alignment of inquiry learning assessment Traditional model of the scientific inquiry process students obsess on results!!! Inquiry learning: iterative reflection and critical thinking.

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Alignment of
inquiry learning
assessment
Traditional
model of
the
scientific
inquiry
process
students
obsess on
results!!!
Inquiry learning:
iterative reflection and critical thinking
Assessment for learning:
• Feedback (student, teacher, peer)
• Checkpoints: identification of
misconceptions
• Inclusive (recall Gardner’s MI)
• Cross-disciplinary explorations
• Iterative process
• Generation of more questions
Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences
• Linguistic
• Logico-mathematical
• Spatial
• Musical
• Bodily-kinesthetic
• Interpersonal (ability to empathize with others' needs,
feelings, motivations)
• Intrapersonal (self-reflective; ability to understand one's own
motivations and emotions)
• Naturalist (sensitivity to nature and one's place within nature;
ability to grow and nurture things; ability to recognize and
classify fauna and flora)
What matters to our students?
Designing an inquiry assessment introductory exercise
Characteristics of Inquiry Assessment:
• Alignment with the scaffolding process
• Variation
• Progressive (allows feedback, checkpoints)
• Inclusive
• Transparency
Inquiry Assessment: What and How?
• Situate abstract tasks into authentic context (Relevance)
•
Identify process of the task
• Vary diversity of situations and articulate common
aspects
• Sequencing activities:
- global before local skills
- increasing complexity
- increasing diversity
• Diversity of assessment methods- examples:
- reflective journals
- progressive development of ‘good questions’
- concept maps
- e-portfolios of inquiry process
Based on the iterative model for inquiry, work
with your team to identify:
• Types of assessment for inquiry- how are
they aligned with learning goals?
• Points at which assessments will be given
• Assessment as opportunities for scaffolding
• Checkpoints for teacher/student