FOI Task D Flashcards
What is the purpose of assessment?
D) Develops - ADM and judgement skills
I) Identify - student deficiencies
P) Provide - feedback to the student
What are characteristics of an effective assessment?
C) Comprehensive - covers what is important, both positive and negative
O) Organized - easy for the student to follow and understand
C) Constructive - benefits the student
O) Objective - has no bias
F) Flexible - fits the content and occasion
A) Acceptable - students must accept the instructor, be fair and act professional
T) Thoughtful - instructor is considerate to the students feelings, criticize in private, praise in public
S) Specific - ensure the student has no doubt of details, performance and instructions
What is a traditional assessment and what are the types?
Written testing
Supply type - difficult to score objectively, like a essay answer test
Selection type - can be graded objectively, true/false and multiple choice
What are the characteristics of a good written assessment?
D) Discrimination - detects small differences in achievement of students
U) Useable - easy to give and grade
O) Objective - without bias
V) Valid - needs to measure what it’s supposed to measure
C) Comprehensive - completely samples the objectives being measured
R) Reliable - yields consistent results
What is an authentic assessment?
Students must generate response from skills and concepts they have learned, like a checkride practical.
What are the characteristics of a collaborative assessment?
R) Replay - Student verbally replays lesson
R) Reconstruct - identifying what should have been done differently
R) Reflect - placing meaning on experience and perceptions, requiring reflection
R) Redirect - student relates lesson to other experiences
What are characteristics of an oral assessment?
R) Reveals - the effectiveness of training
R) Reviews - the material
I) Identifies - points that need more emphasis
C) Checks student comprehension
C) Checks retention
E) Emphasizes - the important points of training
What are the characteristics of an effective question? ABBCC
A) Apply - to the subject of instruction
B) Be brief - Concise and to the point
B) Be Adapted - to the ability, experience, and progress of the student
C) Center - on one idea, with one correct answer
C) Challenge - the student
What are the types of questions to avoid?
B) Bewilderment - provides too much information, confusing the student
I) Irrelevant questions - Questions that don’t deal with the subject at hand
T) Toss-up - must choose between two options that can be correct
P) Puzzle - Too many parts to derive an answer
O) Oversized - Too broad of a question
T) Trick - makes the student feel they are being challenged by you from an unfair question
What are the types of critiques?
Self Critique
Written Critique
Instructor Student Critique
Individual Student Critique by another student
Student Led Critique
Small Group Critique
What is a self critique?
When a student critiques their own performance
What is a written critique?
Instructor can be more thorough and personal that by oral assessment
They are kept by the student and can be referred to at any time
What is the instructor student critique?
Instructor leads a group discussion in which class members offer criticism of a performance. It should be organized and not allowed to turn into a random free for all.
What is the individual student critique by another student?
Student presents the entire assessment - discussion of the performance. Can allow the group to accept more ownership of ideas expressed
What is the student led critique?
Instructor asks students to lead the assessment, may not be very efficient due to inexperience
