End of one road, beginning of another....

The assessment course has now come to a close and I wanted to post my final reflection. I appreciated the course and overall found it to be very useful.  One of the issues that I have is a graded number of reponses to others discussion.  We are a huge AFL district and grading on behavior is a step backwards.  I will tweak this reflection to other's postings for my classess and have students reflect/provide feedback for others intrinsically instead of grading on a behavior! I have found the rest of the course to be very useful!  Please check out my final project at vogds.weebly.com

Final Project

http://vogds.weebly.com/

Please check out my link above for assessment online integrated in the class I teach at UW-Whitewater to pre-service teachers, Methods of  Teaching Accounting.

I will take any and all feedback!!

Brenda

Week 6--Where did you go??

I had a rough, rough week six. In fact, I didn't even know I missed it till it was over. Hopefully my final project will be a great way to make up for it!!

Phew!

I take back my previous post....the most difficult thing this week was getting that chart to post!  WOWSERS!  That was tough. I had to go back to my old school HTML knowledge to clean it up!

Not sure why.

Bloom categories	Learning objective verbs	Activity
Knowledge (recall, list, define, identify, collect, label)	Define Seek	Define ethics, Define Libel, Define taste Students will identify what was the Sullivan ruling?
Comprehension (summarize, describe interpret, predict, discuss)	Distinguish Understand Discuss	Students will distinguish between private  and public people Students will write an informative essay that addresses how the patriot act affects journalists. Students will discuss the ethical dilemmas journalists face Students will work in groups to share their research
Application (apply, demonstrate, illustrate, classify, experiment, discover)	Apply	Students will find examples of coverage that redefine what is considered to be obscene, indecent or profane and they will present their findings to the class
Analysis (analyze, classify, connect, explain, infer)	Explore Analyze Explain	Students will write a persuasive essay where they explore this issue Students will work in small groups to analyze the following scenario in regards to ethics and taste Students will analyze a 6-point Code of Ethics for Journalists Students will lead a classroom discussion where they share and analyze their findings
Synthesis (combine, integrate, plan, create, design, formulate)	Generalize from given facts	Students will write a persuasive essay supporting or rebutting her theory
Evaluation (assess, recommend, convince, compare, conclude, summarize)	Support	Write an essay to support your stand on the issue

Week 5-Assessment

On Sunday our group wrapped up our midterm project. I began this week's assignments a little late but judging by the discussion board, so did others.  The piece of this assignment I found challenging was that it appears as though Casey's ideas where not very well organized. It was difficult to sift through what he had all listed and as a student, I think I would be very challenged by that.

I liked the reference to blooms within course creation and assessment  because I think it's essential for understanding to make sure to include all the levels of blooms in a class-whether it's online or not!

Assessment Tools Wikispace

Follow this link to our group midterm assessment.

http://assessment-tools.wikispaces.com/