Week 4 – Principles of assessment and how to grade quickly, consistently, and effectively
Objectives
- List the different types of assessment: formative/summative and formal/informal.
- Describe what roles grading has in the learning process.
- Define what a rubric is, why they help in uniformity of grading, and list some of the features of a good rubric.
- List some strategies for grading quickly, accurately, and consistently.
- Apply a rubric to a problem.
- Create a rubric for a given problem.
- Evaluate your own grading.
Preparation
- VoiceThread – Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development. Assessment Lesson 1: Formative vs. Summative. Teaching Development Videos. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=aXlANgYROGE.
- VoiceThread – Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development Assessment Lesson 2: Assessment Alignment. Teaching Development Videos. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaMRE4CnydU.
- VoiceThread – Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development Assessment Lesson 3: Rubric Design. Teaching Development Videos. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djkd7tXEgyQ.
Activites
- Collectively construct a definition activity – What are some characteristics of good grading?
- Why speed and consistency are the most important
- Practice grading a problem with a rubric and comparing results
- Whiteboard work – Construct a rubric for a second problem