Assessment: Third Blogging Prompt

Grading Butter by the Railway Cold Stores (1917) By State Library of Queensland, Australia [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons

Our topic for this week is “Assessment.” Donna Riley of VT’s Department of Engineering Education will be visiting class to discuss her ongoing work with ABET standards, so please make sure you’ve read her draft paper, “We Assess What We Value” before class.

I’m planning to have us watch one of the Dan Pink videos posted on the Schedule this evening, but if stuff happens and we don’t get there, you will definitely want to familiarize yourself with Pink’s perspective before proceeding further. (Choose between the 11 minute animated version and the 18′ 30″ TED Talk). Then read “The Case Against Grades” (Alfie Kohn) and “Imagination First” (Liu and Noppe-Brandon). If you get to Lombardi’s piece on “The Role of Assessment in Authentic Learning,” that would be great.

You may post about whatever issue (or set of issues) raised in these materials resonates with you the most.  We know from the discussions we have already had that assessment is a complicated topic and that we have complicated (and sometimes contradictory) ideas about how it works (in general and in our particular field.)  This should be an interesting session, and I am eager to read what you have to say.

One more cool thing: We’ll be exploring a relatively new web annotation tool called Hypothes.is over the next few weeks.  To get us started, I will post some questions and annotations on some of the readings.  The links are below.  If you want to respond and play with the tool yourself, that would be great. Just follow the directions on the Hypothes.is site.

Donna Riley: https://via.hypothes.is/http://amynelson.net/gedis16/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/WeAssessWhatWeValue-Submitted-DRAFT.pdf

Alfie Kohn: https://via.hypothes.is/http://www.alfiekohn.org/article/case-grades/

Marilyn Lombardi: https://via.hypothes.is/https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3019.pdf  (May have a bug – it’s not you.)

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  • Rachel Kinzer Corell

    RE: “One more cool thing: We’ll be exploring a relatively new web annotation tool called Hypothes.is over the next few weeks. To get us started, I will post some questions and annotations on some of the readings. The links are below. If you want to respond and play with the tool yourself, that would be great. Just follow the directions on the Hypothes.is site.”

    THANK YOU.

    I made an account & started looking into using Hypothes.is, but I could totally use a group overview. (Okay, yes, that’s my way of saying I got busy and let this ball drop.) That said, there have definitely been some blog posts where I think it would be cool to see what other people had to say/when they reacted.

    Excited to learn more about this tool!

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