Assessment & Evaluation: Classroom Assessment | Commonly Used Evaluation Devices, Qualities of Good Measurement

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Purpose: Provide the teacher with quick and timely feedback about the effectiveness of his teaching and the state of student learning.

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Classroom Assessment Technique (CAT)

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• Used in the last 2-3 minutes of the class period
• Used to test metacognitive, analysis and synthesis skills.

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One Minute Paper

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• Introductory level courses
  and for totally new content.
• To discover which areas
  learners struggle the most
  and find better ways to deal
  with it.

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Muddiest Point

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• Requires learners to put into their own words something they have just learned.
• Often have to translate medical information into layman’s terms.

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Directed Paraphrasing

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Ask the learners to take a few minutes and write on an index card one possible application of an essential principle, theory or body of information.

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Application Cards

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• Used before teaching new content to discover what the learners already know about the material.
• An ungraded pretest

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Background Knowledge Probe

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Helps to expose mistaken ideas that may hinder learning.

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Misconception/Preconception Check

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Allow learners to express possible lack of confidence in learning certain content or skills.

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Self-Confidence Survey

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It requires clinical teachers to make judgements about whether students are meeting objectives or not

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Evaluation of Learning

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Require multilogical thinking, and tests critical thinking and written at the application level or higher.

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Multiple Choice Questions

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the question itself

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Stem

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the possible answers or solutions

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Options

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correct option

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Answer

Question 14

incorrect options

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Distracters

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• Designed to test the learner’s ability to identify the correctness of statement of fact or principle.
• Limited to testing the lowest levels of knowing, knowledge and comprehension

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True-False Questions

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• Test knowledge, the lowest level of knowing
• Useful in determining if learners can recall the memorized relationships between two things such as dates, events, structures and functions.

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Matching Questions

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• Answers the highest level of knowing, especially analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
• Time consuming for test takers to answer thus limiting the amount of knowledge.

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Essay Type Questions

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short answer questions

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Restricted Response

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full essay questions

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Extended Response

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• Ongoing feedback given to the learner throughout the learning experience.
• Helps the learner identify strengths and weaknesses

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Formative Evaluation

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• Summary evaluation at the end of the learning experience
• Purpose is to assess whether the learner has achieved the objectives and is ready to move on to the next experience

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Summative Evaluation

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• Validity
• Reliability
• Objectivity
• Practicability

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Qualities of a Good Measuring Instrument