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Aligning Assessments with Objectives

Objectives Overview• Purpose of Objectives• Review Bloom’s Taxonomy• Teaching and Learning for Understanding• Writing Strong Objectives

Assessment Mapping• Summative and Formative Assessments• Higher-Level Assessment Example• Writing Objective Driven Assessment

Objectives Overview

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Goals, outcomes, and objectives

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Teaching and Learning for Understanding

ABCD “Formula” Method

Bloom’s Taxonomy (1956)Aligning Assessments with Objectives

Evaluation

Synthesis

Analysis

Application

Comprehension

Knowledge

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Bloom’s Taxonomy Verbs Wheel (Ferlazzo, 2009)

Characteristics of Learning Objectives:

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Expressed in terms of the learner

Clarify faculty expectations for the lesson

Focused on improving student learning

Guide class activities, assignments, and exams (assessment alignment)

Informs how the student measures according to the learning objectives

Inform instructional effectiveness

• Students will be able to do + Action verb + Object (Product/Process/Outcome) + Optional Modifier (Performance Criteria)

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Intended Student Learning

Objectives

• A – Audience• B – Behavior• C – Condition• D – Degree

ABCD Objective Writing

Ways of Writing Objectives:

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Teaching and Learning for Understanding (TfU)

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• Make learning a long-term, thinking-centered process.

• Provide rich ongoing assessment.• Support learning with powerful

representations.• Pay heed to developmental factors.• Induct students into the discipline.• Teach for transfer.

HOW CAN WE TEACH FOR UNDERSTANDING:

Teaching and Learning for Understanding

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Questions you should ask?

What do you really want your students to understand?

What can you do to help your students build those understandings?

What actions can your students take to help build their own understandings?

How will you, and your students, know that they understand?

Summative and Formative Assessments

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Pre-assessment

Pre-testInventoryKWLChecklistObservationSelf-evaluationQuestioning

Formative Assessment

ConferencePeer evaluationQuizJournal EntryTalkaround/DiscussionPortfolio Check56 Examples of Formative Assessment by David Wees

Summative Assessment

Unit TestPerformance TaskProduct or ExhibitDemonstrationPortfolio ReviewCapstone Project

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Questions?

Cheesecake according to Objectives

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• Sample behaviorTaxonomy Level

• List three cheesecake ingredientsKnowledge

• Match appropriate baking pan to baking methodComprehension

• Bake a cheesecakeApplication

• Analyze baking resultsAnalysis

• Develop new cheesecake recipeSynthesis

• Compare and contrast recipesEvaluation

• Create a new type of cheesecakeTfU

Doing the AlignmentAligning Assessments with Objectives

• Prepare and bake the crustLesson 1-1

• Create custard fillingLesson 1-2

• Bake a cheesecake• 1-4-1: Match the appropriate baking pan and method

Lesson 1-4

• Explain the cooling processLesson 1-5

• Appreciate the eating processLesson 1-6

Final Exam Example

Higher-Level Multiple Choice Questions

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Transform Question Use Examples

Interpret Charts and

Graphs

Premise-choice or Multi-logic Thinking

Change the Verb

Good Question Writing

Tests for Teaching Analyze Result More Informati

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