Assessing Student Performance with Different Learning Styles in

Assessing Student Performance with Different Learning Styles in Mind Assistant Provost Catie Lalonde September 18, 2020

Workshop Agenda Through Your Child’s Eyes interactive activity – reactions in chat Conversation Formative Review about assessing different learners and Summative Assessment and discuss sample assessments

Interactive Activity Please click on the link provided in the chat to Through Your Child’s Eyes interactive activity Let us know your reflections in the chat What did we learn? do we need to think about when assessing learners with multiple learning styles?

Where do we begin? Remember your Course Objectives! Tie your major course assignments and other performances to your objectives Ask students for feedback along the way Ask colleagues for feedback along the way

Formative Assessment Activities and assignments that help instructors find learning gaps Can be graded or ungraded, largely informal Feedback Involving loop is important students in peer assessment helps students and instructor

Sample Formative Assessments Exit/Admit Weekly Tickets or One-minute papers or Pop Quizzes Think-Pair-Share Classroom Concept Polls Maps Student-Generated Test Questions

Summative Assessment Evaluations of students’ grasp of course material, often midterm or toward the end of a semester Largely graded and heavily weighted, although project-based assessments, for example, don’t need to be Strengthened assessments by connections with formative

Sample Summative Assessments Mid-term Examinations Final Projects Instructor-Created Exams Final Essays, Final Reports Oral Performances (Group Presentations, Speeches & Debates) (Let’s discuss “scaffolding” approach!)

Resources Wabisabi Yale Learning (formative assessments) Poorvu Center for Teaching & Learning (formative vs. summative assessments)