Important Considerations for Assessment to Function in the Service of Education     

James W. Pellegrino 《Educational Measurement》2020,39(3):81-85

Professor Gordon argues for a significant reorientation in the focus and impact of assessment in education. For the types of assessment activities that he advocates to prosper and positively impact education, serious attention must be paid to two important topics: (1) the conceptual underpinnings of the assessment practices we develop and use to support learning and instruction, and (2) the arguments and evidence we establish for their validity given the intended interpretive use. Such a focus highlights fundamental concepts that have long existed in the broader assessment literature – carefully defining and operationalizing our constructs and then validating the assessments of those constructs. What differs now are the conceptual frameworks, briefly outlined here, that can and must be used to guide both aspects of such work.  相似文献   

Traffic Light Cards: a Cross and Modification Between the Minute Paper and Muddiest Point     

Yunteng He 《College Teaching》2019,67(1):70-72

Muddiest point and minute paper have been popular techniques to obtain feedback from students. However, focusing on the muddiest point too often can be discouraging for both students and instructors; in minute paper, students may often have off-topic comments. Here a cross and modified technique, the ‘traffic light’ card is introduced, to overcome the drawbacks in muddiest point and minute paper. About 2?minutes before the end of lecture, students “traffic light” the given topics on a notecard, in which their understanding is high (green), partial (yellow), or low (red). The results are used by the instructors to give appropriate review in the next lecture and help students gain better understanding in the content.  相似文献   

Assisting,Instructing, Assessing: 21st Century Student Centered Librarianship     

Lauren Newton  Daniel E. Feinberg 《The Reference Librarian》2020,61(1):25-41

ABSTRACT

For librarians at the University of North Florida, there was a need to move beyond information literacy instruction to one-on-one and small group research consultations to aid in student success. By staffing the research desk with staff and students, librarians were able to open their calendars to allow more time for in-person, phone, and online consultations to aid in meeting the research goals of students at the institution. After assessing the research consultation program for two years, there has been a positive correlation between research consultation usage, satisfaction in completing assignments, and student success measures throughout the university.  相似文献   

立德树人背景下高职英语教学中“以文化人”实践探究     

陈坤  葛小竹  赵荃 《安徽职业技术学院学报》2020,(1):5-8

文章基于立德树人的时代背景,分析高职英语教学中提升学生人文素养的必要性和紧迫性,通过建立高素养教师队伍、挖掘教材中的人文内涵、拓展第二课堂,采取"以文化人"贯穿教学全过程的方式,探索提升学生人文素养的有效途径。  相似文献   

The Potential Impact of COVID-19 on Student Learning and How Schools Can Respond     

Adam E. Wyse  Eric M. Stickney  David Butz  Amanda Beckler  Catherine N. Close 《Educational Measurement》2020,39(3):60-64

There is no denying the impact that the coronravirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has had on many aspects of our lives. This article looks at the potential impact of COVID-19 on student learning as schools abruptly morphed into virtual learning environments using data from several instructional, practice, and assessment solutions offered by Renaissance. First, three hypothetical learning scenarios are considered using normative data from Star assessments to explore the potential impact on reading and math test performace. Next, data on Focus Skills are used to highlight which grades may have missed the most foundational math and reading content if instruction was stopped or reduced. Last, data from two of Renaissance's practice tools are used to evaluate whether students were practicing key skills following school closures. The article concludes that academic decline will likely occur but may be tempered by the increased use of practice tools; effects may look different for math and reading; and may impact grades and schools differently. As such, schools may need to leverage decision-making frameworks, such as the Multi-tiered Systems of Support/Response-to-Intervention (MTSS/RTI) framework, more than ever to identify needs and target instruction where it matters most when school begins in fall 2020.  相似文献   

Instructional design for single information literacy sessions     

Elizabeth L. Black 《Public Services Quarterly》2020,16(3):161-171

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to describe how the Understanding by Design instructional design framework can be applied to design high-quality single-session information literacy instruction. The author describes the Understanding by Design process in detail, noting modifications for single instructional session design with examples from the application of this instructional design process to design co-curricular instruction sessions for undergraduates.  相似文献   

Is there a role for direct instruction in problem-based learning? Comparing student-constructed versus integrated model answers     

《Learning and Instruction》2014

Problem-based learning (PBL) requires students to formulate learning issues that need to be answered by studying multiple literature resources. Advocates of high instructional guidance argue that this is too cognitively demanding for students and ineffective for learning. Therefore, we examined the effects of studying an integrated model answer in the self-study phase in PBL. Participants (N = 62) engaged in a simulated group discussion, ending with the establishment of learning issues. Then they either studied integrated model answers to the learning issues, or undertook a standard PBL self-study phase in which students needed to construct their own answers based on multiple literature resources. Higher learning outcomes were obtained for the participants who studied integrated model answers when compared to the participants who constructed their own answers. These higher learning outcomes were obtained with lower investment of self-study and equal investment of mental effort during learning.  相似文献   

课堂教学评价与教师专业发展   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

张琪  刘学利 《辽宁师范大学学报(社会科学版)》2008,31(3):62-64

课堂教学评价是教育改革的重要组成部分之一,有效的课堂教学评价能够促进教师的专业发展和学生的成长。从传统的课堂教学评价存在的问题入手,提出构建促进教师专业发展的课堂教学评价体系,以丰富和深化课堂教学评价的理论与实践。  相似文献   

基于递进式模块的专业硕士校内实践教学设计     

姚静  赵桂春 《教育教学论坛》2019,(4):153-155

本文介绍了针对专业硕士研究生的实践教学改革方法,在充分总结以往教学经验的基础上,基于递进式模块的教学理念,提出了"实验培训+实物制作+项目考核"的实践教学体系,并设计了实践项目。本文以专业硕士校内实践课程教学目标为核心,开展教学环节的创新设计,从建立面向专业硕士专业能力矩阵、实践教学体系设计及实践项目的设计与实施三个方面做了全新的尝试,结合专业课程和学生基本专业素质,设计基础理论实验研究内容,建立综合实践教学模块,培养学生的实践操作、问题分析、分工协作的能力。本文研究成果对专业硕士教学改革具有参考价值。  相似文献   

大学英语阅读中常遇困难的成因分析     

邓鹏 《湖北广播电视大学学报》2007,27(9):118-119

培养学生的阅读理解能力,使学生能独立、有效地完成英语文章的阅读是大学英语教学的目标之一。但在教学的过程中,有大部分的学生则存在词汇量不足、文化缺省、阅读速度太慢等问题,这样就造成了阅读质量的下降。本文尝试分析这些问题的成因,希望能为以后的英语阅读教学的改革提供参考。  相似文献