Outcome Discussion 10

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Design the specifications for formative and summative assessment.
· Understand the process of determining achievement & improvement through feedback: testing, measurement, assessment, evaluation
· Use appropriate assessment re timing/purpose: diagnostic, formative, summative
· Understand and create appropriate assessment targets re: know, reason, skill, product, dispositions
· Use appropriate variety in methods so as to be fair to all: no undue reliance on a single method
· Use Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation
· Use Wiggins’ Personalized Taxonomy of Understanding: explanation, interpretation, application, perspective, empathy, self-knowledge
· Use Fink’s Interactive Taxonomy of Significance: foundational, knowing, phenomena, remembering facts and ideas; ideas, thinking/acting, application; connecting, integration,; acting & caring, self & others, human dimension; motivation, caring, others; learning how to learn, learning itself; thinking itself, meta-cognition
· Understand and create and use appropriate assessment methods: selection [T-F, Match, M-C]; supply [Completion, Short Answer. Essay]; Performance Tasks; Personal Communication [Oral exam, Interview, Conference, Question & Answer, Discussion, Debate, Observation]
· Understand and ensure the development of Quality Items: clear targets, proper method, proper sample: representative and confident inferences, Interference controlled: bias and distortion, clear purpose
· Apply proper referencing to item interpretation: norm, criterion, self
· Use these tools for increasing objectivity of scoring: anecdotal records, checklists, rating scales, rubrics, exemplars
· Understand and employ adequate methods of organizing evaluations: assessment stations, individual assessments, group assessments, contracts, self- and peer-assessments, expert [teacher] assessment, portfolios
· Continued use of Ongoing Student Activities: written assignments, academic prompts, presentations, conferencing, performance assessments, homework

Bloom's Taxonomy

Learning