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What do you notice?

What do you wonder?

Assessment that

Supports Learning

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Peter Newbury, Ph.D.

Center for Teaching Development,

University of California, San Diego

pnewbury@ucsd.edu

@polarisdotca #ctducsd

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Scripps Institute of Oceanography November 21, 2014

Scholarly approach to teaching:

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Carl Wieman

Science Education Initiative

cwsei.ubc.ca

What should

students

learn? learning

outcomes assessment

What should

students

learn?

What are

students

learning?

What instructional

approaches

help students

learn? how people learn,

alternatives to lecture

Vocabulary Check: Mindsets [1]

Entity, Helpless,

Performance-oriented,

Fixed

Mastery-oriented,

Incremental, Malleable,

Growth

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The helpless [children]

believe that intelligence is a

fixed trait: you have only a

certain amount, and that’s

that.

The mastery-oriented

children think intelligence

is malleable and can be

developed through

education and hard work.

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Diagnosing Fixed/ Growth Mindset

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Each card has contrasting fixed and growth behaviors. With

your neighbors:

1. sort the cards to show the fixed mindset

behaviors

2. one by one, flip all the cards over to see the

contrasting growth mindset behaviors

fixed

growth

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Graphic by Nigel Holmes [2]

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Graphic by Nigel Holmes [2]

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Graphic by Nigel Holmes [2]

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Graphic by Nigel Holmes [2]

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Graphic by Nigel Holmes [2]

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Graphic by Nigel Holmes [2]

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Mindset for your students

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You

must foster

a growth mindset

in your students.

Vocabulary check: assessment

summative assessment formative assessment

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is that which gives a final

judgment of evaluation of

proficiency, such as grades or

scores.

(How Learning Works, p. 139)

explicitly communicates to

students about some specific

aspects of their performance

relative to specific target

criteria, and … provides

information that helps students

progress toward meeting those

criteria. [It] informs students’

subsequent learning.

(How Learning Works, p. 139)

Feedback and Practice that

Enhance Learning

15

Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback are

critical to learning. [3]

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Enhance Learning

16

Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback are

critical to learning. [3]

Goals can direct the nature of focused practice, provide the basis

for evaluating observed performance, and shape the targeted

feedback that guides students’ future efforts. [p. 127]

Targeted feedback gives students prioritized information about

how their performance does or does not meet the criteria so they

can understand how to improve their future performance. [p. 141]

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Characteristics of effective

feedback and practice

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practice is goal-directed

productive practice

feedback at

appropriate level

timely feedback

practice not goal-directed

unproductive practice

feedback not at

appropriate level

untimely feedback

Find 2 or 3 others with the same colored sheet as you.

Together, think of examples of both cases, in

sports/hobbies and in teaching and learning.

Practice Goal-directed Practice not Goal-directed sp

ort/

hobb

y te

achi

ng a

nd le

arni

ng

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Productive Practice Unproductive Practice sp

ort/

hobb

y te

achi

ng a

nd le

arni

ng

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Feedback at Appropriate Level Feedback not at Appropriate Level sp

ort/

hobb

y te

achi

ng a

nd le

arni

ng

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Timely Feedback Untimely Feedback sp

ort/

hobb

y te

achi

ng a

nd le

arni

ng

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What kind of assessment gives

timely feedback at an

appropriate level to support

goal-directed and

productive practice?

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Assessment that supports learning Robert Talbert

tinyurl.com/RobertTalbertRubric 24

components

of project

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tinyurl.com/RobertTalbertRubric 25

summative

assessment

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tinyurl.com/RobertTalbertRubric 26

descriptions so students

know where they are

and how to get better

Rubric = path to improvement

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goal-directed

Goals can direct the nature of focused practice, provide the basis for evaluating observed performance, and shape the targeted feedback that guides students’ future efforts.

targeted feedback

Targeted feedback gives students prioritized information about how their performance does or does not meet the criteria so they can understand how to improve their future performance.

Students need to be aware of the rubric (and using it) throughout the assignment/project (that is, not just a grading scheme at the end.)

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Big picture for course design

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Carl Wieman

Science Education Initiative

cwsei.ubc.ca

What should

students

learn?

What should

students

learn?

What are

students

learning?

What instructional

approaches

help students

learn?

Design each activity,

each class, and your

entire course by

establishing and aligning

the learning outcomes,

instructional activities, and

assessments (both formative

and summative.)

Mindset for your students

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You must have a

growth mindset about your

students’ ability to learn.

You

must foster

a growth mindset

in your students.

and you

References

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1. Dweck, C.S. (2007). The Secret to Raising Smart Kids. Scientific American, 18,

6, 36-43.

2. Nigel Holmes http://nigelholmes.com/home.htm

3. Ambrose, S.A., Bridges, M.W., DiPietro, M., Lovett, M.C., & Norman,

M.K. (2010). How Learning Works. San Fransisco: Jossey-Bass.