US11552 readings and AS1

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transformative learning

summative assessment

normative and criterion-referenced assessment

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Reading #1 Ch. 9 Course Design and Assessment for Transformation

Linda Leach, Guyon Neutze. and Nick Zepke

Excellent look at Course Design and Assessments.  In particular, page 164 has rubrics table that uses really precise language to gauge student's abilities in an assessment.  Norm-referenced, achievement-based, and standards-based assessments are all covered.  Lots of questions to ask before starting to make an assessment up so you're sure it's going to do the right things for the right people. p.174 addresses something that i struggle with during marking: the Bell Curve. Or that only some are excellent,  most are mediocre, and some must fail.  Instead, we are invited to consider that everyone could do well which is possible with standards for achievement-based assessments.

Recommended readings at end of chapter:

Curriculum Design

Barnett, R. (1994). The Limits of Competence: Knowledge, Higher Education and Society.             Buckingham: Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press.

Eisner, E. (1994).  The Educational Imagination (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan.

Toohey, S. (1999). Designing Courses for Higher Education. Buckingham: Society for Research into     Higher Education and Open University Press.

Assessment;

Broadfoot, P. (1996). Education, Assessment and Society. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Cangelosi, J. (2000). Assessment Strategies for Monitoring Student Learning. New York: Longman.

Raven, J., & Stephenson, J. (2001). Competence in the Learning Society. New York: P. Lang.

Glossary:

Formative assessment: assessment to help learners improve by providing feedback.  It does not contribute to the final judgment of the learning. 

Summative assessment: assessment to measure whether the learner has met the learning outcomes and which contributes to the final judgment of performance. Usually a mark or grade is assigned.

Readings I have found: 

Salmons, Janet. Learning to Collaborate, Collaborating to Learn : Engaging Students in the Classroom and Online, Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sitlibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5748777.