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Instructor's comments on your instructional analysis and objectives -- Jz833665 20:48, 19 October 2009 (EDT)

Great that you've moved onto a productive path!

Your objectives:

   Teachers will reflect on their personal definition of “assessment” and its place in their classroom. 

Think about changing "definition" to "conception" or "understanding"

   Teachers will gain the confidence and expertise to use assessment in a formative manner, to shape their instruction. 

This looks like an overarching goal that integrates all you listed here, instead of a performance objective.

   Given literature on formative and summative assessment, teachers will examine similarities and differences in the two concepts. 
   Teachers will learn to create student rubrics and learn to use these to guide students towards understanding their errors and learning from them. 

According to Gagne, your objectives should describe what the learners will be able to do after the learning, not what they will being doing during the learning (e.g., learning activities). The above two objectives are more about what they will be doing in learning.

Re: Instructor's comments on your instructional analysis and objectives -- Mary Beth Rock 22:02, 20 October 2009 (EDT)

Thanks for your suggestions. I changed several of the objectives, however I am still struggling with the objective on "confidence and expertise". I would like an attitude objective, since many teachers truly need to develop a positive attitude about this new way of doing things.

Perhaps "After gaining expertise with formative assessments, teachers will choose (LCV) to implement this in their classroom."

Re: Re: Instructor's comments on your instructional analysis and objectives -- Jz833665 15:57, 21 October 2009 (EDT)

Yes, your "perhaps" works fine.

   Teachers will create student rubrics and use these to guide students towards understanding their errors. 

You may think about replacing "understanding their errors" with something like "reflecting on where they fall short for better learning"???