NISOD 2008 - Fundamentals of Good Assessment - Student Learning Outcomes
Today I attended two ).
She presented an “evidence” and “task” approach to assessing Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs), defined as the “accumulated knowledge, skills, and attitudes that students develop during a course of study”. They can assessed at the class, programme, or institutional level (although for the purposes of this presentation, I felt that Dr. Kazin kept her examples to the programme level). SLOs reflect a shift of focus from, ” What am I teaching?” to “What are students learning?” I found this learning-centred approach very familiar and relevant to me as it allowed me to participate in the rest of the presentation based on how we approach learning-centredness at ” that describes an evidence-centred approach to assessing SLOs.
This was a very useful workshop - it showed me that MCQs do have a place in my assessment toolkit and it reinforced my opinion that CR style questions, tasks, and assignments are still my preferred assessment tools - for me assessment is about what you can do, not just what you know…
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