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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
on
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Questions?
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