Name one way to avoid halo effect in grading.
Pay attention to your biases. Follow your grading rubric. Consider assessment software.
What is a halo effect?
Grading practices for group projects.
A bad grade because of too much gaming.
When a teacher grades with a preference/aversion to student.
When students sit next to smart kids to get good grades.
True or False: Mastery Grading allows students retake a test or assignment to try and achieve a better grade.
True, with mastery grading, if a student doesn't meet mastery they can study/revise and try again.
List a benefit of grading rubrics.
Help reduce student anxiety. Clear instructions. Better feedback. Better growth in student assignments.
What is a grading rubric?
a type of scoring guide that assesses and articulates specific components and expectations for an assignment.
Give one tip for better test making.
Make sure test questions align with learning objectives. Avoid true/false which give 50/50 for guessing correctly.Consider an easy question first for confidence
Michael is presenting a slideshow to the class today. What type of assesment would a teacher use this project as?
Standardized testing
Performance assesment
A Formative Evaluation
Summative assesment
True or False: A formative test should be given at the very end of an instructional unit.
False, a formative is a good assessment to do throughout the unit because it allows teachers to know if additional teaching is needed.
What are 3 types of evaluations?
Summative, Formative, and Performance
Tests are important because:
They communicate the students understanding and learning.
Teachers like to stress students out.
They make for an easy day for teachers.
They are the only way to know what kids have learned.
What are the 3 main parts of a learning objective?
A. Performance (what the learner is expected to do), condition( condition under which performance is to occur), criteria(how well it must be done).
True or False: Backwards planning is when teachers teach a lesson and then write the learning objective afterwards.
False, this idea is to write a broad objective and then break it down into smaller lessons.
True or False: Bloom's Taxonomy Theory believed that all learning objectives should start with the most challenging content.
False, The theory believes learning objectives should start simple and progress to more complex.
Bloom's Taxonomy Theory states that learning objectives should be structured in which order?
Analyze, evaluate, create, revise, finalize, present
Create, evaluate, analyze, apply, understand, remember
practice, test, assess, practice, retest
Remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create
Instructions Objectives are:
A statement of skills students are expected to know at the end of an instruction period.
