Before Module 2 (Assessment Framework) in EDS 113, my idea of student learning assessment can be summarized by these words: tests, scores, passed or failed. Going through the learning resources, my brain is overwhelmed by the flux of new information. While learning about the assessment cycle, I realized that I failed to do certain components of the cycle. The idea of completing the whole assessment cycle seems cumbersome until I came across this very simple but dynamic representation of the assessment cycle by the Westminster College. In their post, the cycle is built on four distinct but interrelated actions: Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA). It starts with a “clearly articulated outcomes statements guiding course design, course activities yield data that measure student learning, and evaluation of this data informs course and program revision. Revised outcomes are implemented and student learning evaluated, following a process that may lead to further revision”. I guess that this cycle can go on and on … until the process is improved.
To translate their diagram in words: Plan is write outcomes; Do is teach and learn; Check is evaluate student work and Act is to revise and reinforce.
By following this simple principle…I have all hopes that I can do it.
Reference:
The Assessment Cycle
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