Talk:Katie Matthews's Portfolio Page

Instructor comments on your needs assessment and objectives -- Jianwei Zhang (talk) 14:00, 14 March 2013 (EDT)

Katie-

I'm very pleased to see the instructional analysis you've conducted and objectives composed, which will lead to a focused, solid, and helpful mini-course. Nice work!

A few comments:

Clickers are mostly used to increase student engagement in classrooms, so they can show and share ideas, examine different ideas, see progress (formative assessment), and discuss different solutions. I think your objectives should have something related to such interactive engagement (in addition to assessment)

Re. assessment: I haven't thought about clickers can be used for summative assessment. Do you have good references on this?

Your last objective can be refined: instead of "state" you may use a higher-level verb such as "evaluate".

Instructor comments on your ICM -- Jianwei Zhang (talk) 13:50, 16 April 2013 (EDT)

Hi Katie-

Your task analysis and ICM will inform and guide the design of this mini-course in a solid manner. Two suggestions:

- Your unit 1 should include a sub-objective pertaining to understanding what personal response system is, in order to understand its benefit.

- Your unit 4 about summative assessment: I am not sure whether the use of the response system itself will be really different between summative and formative assessment. If this is the case, you may integrate unit 3 and 4 But I only have limited knowledge about this topic. You should decide.