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Welcome to the Engaging Students Series!

This session will begin at 1:00 p.m.

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Your Facilitators Today:

Erica Fleming

ecf10@psu.edu

Sara Davis�smd358@psu.edu

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Engaging Students Series

Engaging Students Through Assessment

Smeal College of Business

*Reminder: this session will be recorded

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Session Objectives:

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

  • set clear expectations for formative and summative assessments in your online course
  • consider the student experience when planning your course assessments
  • create formative assessments in synchronous and asynchronous online environments
  • create and adapt summative assessments to the online environment

Target” by PettyCon on Pixabay

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Setting Expectations for Assessments

How formative assessment will work

Form/medium of summative assessments

How students will prepare for summative assessments

How students can expect to receive feedback

Photo by VGrigas on Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC-BY-SA-3.0

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Considering the Student Experience

Image by Jan Vašek from Pixabay

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Faculty Experience

  • Technology access
  • Internet issues
  • Worry about physical safety
  • Family employment interruptions
  • Living arrangements
  • Spouse/parents/children/ siblings present during class/prep time

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Faculty Experience

Student Experience

  • Technology access
  • Internet issues
  • Worry about physical safety
  • Family employment interruptions
  • Living arrangements
  • Spouse/parents/children/ siblings present during class/prep time
  • Technology access
  • Internet issues
  • Worry about physical safety
  • Family employment interruptions
  • Living arrangements
  • Spouse/parents/children/ siblings present during class/homework time
  • Food insecurity
  • Ability to pay for school

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Image by yogesh more from Pixabay

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    • Zoom Tools
    • Poll Everywhere
    • Enter/Exit Tickets
    • Canvas Tools
    • Class Wiki - Teams

Synchronous

Asynchronous

Self-Assessment

    • Canvas Quizzes and Assignments
    • Kaltura Quizzes

Formative Assessment Strategies - Knowledge Checks

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Formative Assessment Strategies

Organizers

    • Visual Organizers
    • Guided/ Collaborative notes

Case Studies

    • Written or Video
    • PSU Resource

Whiteboards

    • Zoom
    • Slide
    • Tablet/iPad

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Adapting Assessments

Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence:

Flexible Teaching and Assessment Strategies

Adapting Assessments (Keep Teaching)

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Consider Length

Mix Question Types

Weight Questions

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Consider Length

Mix Question Types

Weight Questions

Provide Feedback

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Consider Length

Mix Question Types

Weight Questions

Provide Feedback

Have Some Humor

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Quiz/Exam Security

  • Use Question Banks to randomize quiz questions
  • Assign availability dates and times
    • Be mindful of timezones
  • Shuffle answers to questions
  • Set a time limit for the exam
  • Limit access to answers/feedback to a specific window
  • Leverage Turnitin

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Question Groups and Question Banks in Canvas

Canvas Question Groups

  • Use question groups to randomize the order that the same quiz questions appear on different student tests.

Canvas Question Banks

  • Use question banks in Canvas to pull randomized questions on the same topics from a larger bank.
  • You can use the same question bank across multiple courses.

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Openly Licensed Question Banks

Open Stax

  • Introduction to Business
  • Business Ethics
  • Principles of Management
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Organizational Behavior

Quizium

  • Business - Principles of Business Management (994)


File:Question-mark.jpg. (2020, January 2). Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Retrieved 19:00, August 13, 2020 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Question-mark.jpg&oldid=384914101.

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Provide Accomodations

  • Students should provide documentation from the �Office of Educational Equity
  • Canvas allows you to:
    • Assign a specialized quiz to one student
    • Grant extra time
    • Grant additional attempts

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Alternatives to Multiple Choice Tests for Recognition and Recall

Alternatives to large MC sections of test/exams:

  • Smaller, more frequent formative assessments throughout the semester

Alternatives to MC questions on tests/exams:

  • Free response (fill-in-the-blank) questions automatically graded in Canvas
  • Matching (could use for sequential processes, vocabulary)

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Rubrics

  • Work well for:
    • Essays
    • Projects
    • Presentations
    • Performances
    • Media Creation Assignments
    • Self-reflections
    • Peer Reviews

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Rubrics Enhance Student Learning

  • Students know performance standards
  • Enhances motivation
  • Provides guidance
  • Gives clear feedback
  • Promotes self-assessment

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Types Of Rubrics

Excellent

all items attempted

all correct

Adequate

many, but not all items attempted

most correct

Poor

many items not attempted

many incorrect

Analytic

Meets All Criterion

Meets Some Criterion

Does not Meet Criterion

Accuracy

Content accurately reflects thorough understanding of topic and is factually correct

Content accurately reflects a basic understanding of topics and is mostly factually correct

Content does not reflect understanding of topics and is mostly factually incorrect

Analysis

Explicitly states the arguments both for and against the issue

Presents only one side of the issue or demonstrates an obvious bias

Fails to demonstrate knowledge of pros and cons of the issue

Vocabulary

Defines and explains relevant concepts

Includes relevant concepts, but does not clearly explain them

Does not include or explain relevant concepts

Mechanics

Contains mostly correct manuscript and citation format and is substantially free of grammatical or spelling errors

Contains several instances of incorrect manuscript or citation format and/or grammatical or spelling errors

Does not meet manuscript and citation format requirements and/or contains multiple grammatical or spelling errors

Holistic

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Types Of Rubrics

Kudos

Criteria for grading

Concerns

Content accurately reflects thorough understanding of topic and is factually correct

Explicitly states the arguments both for and against the issue

Defines and explains relevant concepts

Contains mostly correct manuscript and citation format and is substantially free of grammatical or spelling errors

Single-point

Criteria for grading

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2

3

Feedback

Content accurately reflects thorough understanding of topic and is factually correct

Explicitly states the arguments both for and against the issue

Defines and explains relevant concepts

Contains mostly correct manuscript and citation format and is substantially free of grammatical or spelling errors

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Smeal TLT Contact Information:

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Contact Information:

Erica Fleming�ecf10@psu.edu

Sara Davis�smd358@psu.edu