Talk:Mary Huffman's Portfolio Page

Instructor comments on your project -- Jz833665 20:47, 4 March 2012 (EST)

Mary,

You've had a solid beginning in this design project! Nice work. I especially like the way you conducted and used your needs assessment to refine your focus. A few suggestions:

• There are many good resources on assessment for understanding (http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb94/vol51/num05/The-Horse-Before-the-Cart@-Assessing-for-Understanding.aspx) and formative assessment in general. Find more to help build the knowledge base based on which you're creating this mini-course.
• You've had a nice pass to create the performance objectives, which could be further refined.

Given an overview of the concept of understanding, the learner will state in their own words what constitutes understanding and how it applies to their own teaching situation.

The objective statement specifies the situation of assessment/application, not the context of the learning process. Think about something like "When asked by peers, the participants can state in their own words how understanding differs from remembering and give at least two example to show such differences from their own teaching situation" (you don't

Given examples of types of assessment questions, the learner will classify the questions by the thinking skills they require to solve them.

Good.

Given guidelines for creating effective multiple choice questions, the learner will demonstrate the procedure by writing a multiple choice question for their course.

Given a core concept that students need to understand, the participant will create multiple choice question to effectively assess student understanding and describe strategies to provide feedback to promote student understanding...

You may also want to add to this list the capability to create alternative, authentic assessment for understanding, and this is more important than standard test.

Instructor comments on your objectives and task analysis -- Jz833665 11:25, 22 March 2012 (EDT)

Mary,

Your refined objectives and the task analysis you've carried out are properly done! Nice work.

Two minor issues:

1. objective 1, near its end: "learning and understanding" Do you mean "remembering and understanding"?

Your objectives for the last unit seems a bit too low: in addition to being able to classify or give examples, do you think they should be able to design authentic tasks?

Again, nice work.

Instructor comments on your draft unit -- Jz833665 23:42, 28 April 2012 (EDT)

Mary,

Your course homepage and unit 1 look very well designed, informative and engaging. Nice work!

I've modified your unit 1 discussion tab to set up some structure for the discussion.

To ease navigation, you may add a link to your home/front page.

Again, nice work. You may work out the rest of your course following the style of unit 1.