All About Assessment
A course offered for Graduate Credit at Brown University in Providence, RI
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Course Outline
Day 11. Introduction to the Course
2. All about Assessment: Theory and Practice |ppt
3.Correction for Guessing--(Don Allen)| ppt | pdf
4. Mathematical Proficiency |ppt
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Day 2
1. Math Type
2. Scientific Notebook
Assignment 1: Create a Rubric for some type of math assignment that you will do this coming semester.
Assignment 2: Create a webquest for your students using the template on the webquest page. Have at least 3 links to outside websites. Don't forget your evaluation Rubric.
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Day 3.
Creating Online Assessments
1a. Respondus
-A must if creating exams for WebCT or Blackboard.
-- Tutorial html
|word
1b. Studymate--a product by Respondus that allows teachers to create ungraded study aids such as flash cards and multiple choice self-tests. Currently does not support math symbols. This should be fixed by early September.
2. Questionmark--Looks good. Allows one to publish to WebCT, Blackboard or as a stand-alone (a feature missing in Respondus)
4. Quizmaker -Nice, but does not allow for math symbols. You can play with this, but I will not do it in class.
5. Acrotex -Very professional looking, but extremely steep learning curve. Need to be familiar with LaTEX
6. Do's and Don'ts of Multiple Choice Tests htm | ppt
7. Analyzing Assessments--item analysis
8. Strategies for online testing.
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Day 4.
1.Other Alternate forms of Assessment | ppt
--Find the Error:some of these are quite challenging.
--Portfolios Example 1 | Example 2
--Panel Assessments (and Oral Exams)
--"Clinical Interviews" tutoring
--Group (or Paired) Testing
A good resource of related calculus websites (some are broken)
