Talk:Unit 1: What is Formative Assessment?

Review of mini course lesson #1 -- Eliza Pierce (talk) 08:41, 20 November 2015 (EST)

Hi Jess!

I really enjoyed your lesson #1!! I agree with you that formative assessment is probably the most important piece in the learning process because as it is stated in your video and articles, it works with the students. I especially liked your set up because it was clean, organized, and easy to read. I wonder if maybe I should clean mine up a bit?! :)

The video was a great way to expand on your lesson and I found it to be very informative as well as the articles/readings you selected. I was able to read and view everything in a short enough time and yet I feel that I gained a lot of new information from each activity. Even though I did not complete the activity in Google docs, I still wrote everything down on a sheet of paper and felt as if I was actually taking the course!

The image you selected for your lesson was a great piece that allowed me to do a quick reference even before I viewed the video or completed the readings which was allowed for a good rapid source of information. I especially liked the size you decided to make it because it was easier to read! How were you able to do that? What is the size? I would love to change my images to larger size as well for ease of reading!

Overall, I really enjoyed your lesson #1! Since we have two weeks for this module and for reviewing our mini courses, would you like to work on other lessons(I was planning to do this as well) and review them as well? This way we could give each other more feedback before the module is done next week!

Let me know what you think!

Eliza

Jessica,

I really loved the first unit of your mini course. First, the topic of formative assessment is something that is vital to teachers’ day-to-day experience in the classroom. I could definitely see this course used as a professional development for educators.

1) Some things that I thought worked well…

- Your mini course was incredibly easy to use and all the links worked without any trouble.

- I like that you had a specific section for the overview expectations. It makes a big difference to know what is coming from an assignment.

- The video from youtube was really informative and anyone who had no idea about formative assessment would be adequately informed.

- The articles you chose are instructive and explanatory.

- I love the graphics! They’re eye-catching and the venn diagram in helpful without being overwhelming with information.

- I really love the idea of the google document to have all the participants be able to write in one place – I wish I had thought of that!

2) Suggestions

There were only a few minor things I saw that you could change:

- The heading that says ‘Learning Objective’ should be ‘Learning Objectives’

- Under the ‘Learning Activities’ heading the title of lesson one should have a ‘?’ and the 3rd bullet should have one as well.

- The only other thing I would change if it were my course is to actually answer the question you posed for the unit: ‘what is formative assessment?’ by either having the participants answer the question in their own words on the google document

This is a great course and I look forward to the rest of it!

Allison