Outcome Assessment
The Assessment Committee and The Teaching and Learning Center sponsored The Clark College Spring Teaching and Assessment Workshop
The purpose of the workshop was to engage with a variety of teaching and assessment strategies that can readily be used in our classrooms. The workshop began with looking at learner centered teaching and the big ideas of our curriculum. This led the participants to an exploration of instructional strategies that promote student engagement in the class at a variety of cognitive levels from teaching basic facts to promoting synthesis of complex ideas. The workshop used collaborative learning methods to run the sessions with most of the session activities being followed by a classroom assessment technique. This design was intended to help participants actively learn both the workshop content and strategies for using collaborative learning and classroom assessment in the classroom.
Suggested Readings from the workshop discussion
- Making the Grade: The Role of Assessment in Authentic Learning
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3019.pdf
- Critical Thinking Rubric from WSU
http://wsuctprojectdev.wsu.edu/ctrdocs/CIT%20Rubric%202006.pdf
- Students’ perceptions about evaluation and assessment in higher education: A review. Please scroll down about a third of the way and read from "Assessment format and method" to "Conclusion and Discussion"
- Maryellen Weimer article from Change magazine
"Focus on Learning, Transforming Teaching"
- Marci McReynold's Fall Focus 2007 handout
Performance Assessment Workshop
Watch this site for details about this upcoming event
