Real Measurement for Real Pedagogy: Finding evidence of student learning in the stuff you already have lying about
Tuesday, November 7, 11:45-1:15 in Buntrock 142
Chuck Huff, Psychology and 2006-07 CILA Associate; Dana Gross, Psychology
(co-sponsors: Collaborative Assessment of Liberal Learning (CALL), Academic Research and Planning (ARP))
Does your new approach to teaching get students excited about your subject? Help them process knowledge in greater depth? Connect their knowledge to other fields and to their own lives? How do you know? How can you find out if your students are actually learning what you think they are or having the experience you think they are?
Often there are bits of evidence lying about in your classroom that can be used as evidence that what you think is happening actually is. Chuck and Dana will talk about how to take advantage of this found data, and how to make more chances to get it. Their conversation will focus on discovering traces of student experience (in any format) that can be systematically analyzed. They will suggest two approaches to coding those traces to glean structured evidence from them, and talk about the advantages and disadvantages of this approach.
