Talk:Yingjing Lin's Portfolio

Instructor comments on your project -- Jz833665 10:18, 5 March 2012 (EST)

Hi Yingjing, Your mini-course will address an important topic. Please catch up with the schedule to conduct deeper needs analysis and learner analysis (what the participants/teachers know, where the gap is, and how your mini-course will address such gaps) and define the course level objectives.

Instructor comments on your objectives and task analysis -- Jz833665 20:30, 9 April 2012 (EDT)

YIngjing,

I'm very pleased to see the ICM you've worked out for your mini-course. It presents the careful task analysis you've done for the learning objectives. One suggestion I have for you is to rewrite your course-level purpose/objective in line with the box on the top of your ICM. Currently your course-level objectives include:

Critically consider the use of testing
Classify the different forms of assessment
Design instruction with effective formative assessment

Only item # is in your ICM.

Besides, your ICM shows that you are focusing primarily on the how-to of each formative assessment tool; I'd encourage you to additionally target deep understanding of what's good about each tool and how these should be integrated in a given context and content area of teaching.

Instructor comments on your draft unit -- Jz833665 09:38, 29 April 2012 (EDT)

Jingying,

Your course front page does a good job to guide the participants into your course, seeing why this topic, what this course is about. Your design to ask the participants to reflect on their practice first is also a good strategy to engage their thinking. The hyperlinks you've set up for the units work well too.

One improvement you can make is to refine your course-leve objectives so they will be more specific.

"Critically consider the use of assessment": something like: recognize the limitations of traditional assessment and the need to integrate new forms of assessment...?

"Classify the different forms of assessment": I feel that "classify" is a too low expectation. Think about additionally including: compare the strengths and purposes of different assessments

"Design instruction with effective formative assessment" : you may change it to something like: design effective formative assessment to facilitate student understanding and learning in a given subject area...