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A Little Book on TeachingAssessment

A Little Book on Teaching: Assessment CHAPTER 4 4.1 OVERVIEW As a faculty member it is imperative that we regularly assess the academic health of our students, ourselves, and our courses. This chapter is divided into three separate sections covering each of these topics. The chapter begins by discussing techniques to regularly assess student performance. This is followed by a discussion on the assessment of our performance as teachers including a discussion on assessing our course(s). In this section we see how our course-level assessment and the related activity of evaluation is an integral part of our department’s continuous improvement program. The term assessment is used throughout this chapter to include the gathering, interpretation, and evaluation of data to render improvements in our students, our performance as instructors and in our course content. 4.2 ASSESSMENT OF YOUR STUDENTS As educators we want our students to succeed and be successful in our courses. The student also has a shared responsibility to keep up with and complete course requirements. In this section we provide proactive methods to assess students’ progress in our lectures and during the course of our class. Our goal is the early detection of student issues so we can proactively make corrections for student http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2012
ISBN
978-3-031-79344-8
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56 –67
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-79345-5_4
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CHAPTER 4 4.1 OVERVIEW As a faculty member it is imperative that we regularly assess the academic health of our students, ourselves, and our courses. This chapter is divided into three separate sections covering each of these topics. The chapter begins by discussing techniques to regularly assess student performance. This is followed by a discussion on the assessment of our performance as teachers including a discussion on assessing our course(s). In this section we see how our course-level assessment and the related activity of evaluation is an integral part of our department’s continuous improvement program. The term assessment is used throughout this chapter to include the gathering, interpretation, and evaluation of data to render improvements in our students, our performance as instructors and in our course content. 4.2 ASSESSMENT OF YOUR STUDENTS As educators we want our students to succeed and be successful in our courses. The student also has a shared responsibility to keep up with and complete course requirements. In this section we provide proactive methods to assess students’ progress in our lectures and during the course of our class. Our goal is the early detection of student issues so we can proactively make corrections for student

Published: Jan 1, 2012

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