Transcript Assessment and Grading

Assessment and Grading
Teaching Circle #3
April 13, 2016
Let’s establish common vocabulary
• Assessment – forming a judgment about
quality and extent of student’s achievement
and performance
• Grading – evaluation of student achievement
on a larger scale. The scoring (numbers or
symbols) serves as raw materials to reaching a
decision on a grade.
Sharing
• What are some of your concerns with your
current grading practices?
Types of Assessment
Summative
Formative
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• Process
• Sometimes ungraded
• Focus on knowledge, skills
& dispositions
• Examples: Portfolios,
projects, performance tasks
Outcome
Summary score
Focus on knowledge
Examples: Tests and essays
Grading Systems
Criterion-based
Grades are determined by an
individual’s performance against
specified learning outcomes
Norm-based
Proportionate grades are determined
by an individuals performance
compared to the performance of all
others in the class.
Your Turn – Select one course you
teach and…..
• List your course objectives
• List the assessments you use in your course
• Share with a colleague and determine if the
assessments are a valid indicator of student
achievement/ performance towards the
course objectives.
KEY TO SUCCESS: VARIETY
My example:
• Students select 3 applications:
– In-class application (generate original examples of
concepts, apply to given scenario).
– Online quiz (multiple-choice, true/false)
– Research a topic (4-page paper; review 2 empirical
studies)
– Data analysis (collect data, graph, and analyze over a
4-6 week period)
– Summary exit sheets (complete assigned readings,
bullet-point summary + in-class learning)