Blog Assignment 2 - Assessment

Week’s Summary

This week, we continued to work on our Course Outline Assignment. Since our main focus this week was assessment, we learned about assessments to go with our objectives. The goals, learners, context, and assessment are factors to be considered when designing assessments. These factors help create effective assessments that will help my students in my course.

Item of Interest

When I watched the ADDIE video about design, I was surprised by most of the information about assessment. I did not know the assessments should be created before assigning content. I assumed that it would be better if the content was created first. Also, I did not know it took so much consideration for the assessment.

When I watched the Effective Assessments Video, I learned new information as well. The most critical information I discovered was that the types of assessments should measure the stated learning objectives. As a student, I have been in several classes where the learning objectives of the course had nothing to do with the assessments. For instance, I was in a music class where the learning objectives were about learning the terminology of the music. However, my teacher only assessed us on the history of music. This made my classmates and me stressed and confused. When I become a teacher, I do not want my student to have the same experience I had in that music class. I want them to know the assessments will go with the objectives. I found an article online that focuses on avoiding assessment mistakes that comprise competence and quality. The article can be found at http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/241/avoiding-assessment-mistakes-that-compromise-competence-and-quality. I like that the article explains the mistakes in-depth.

Problem or Concern

I could use assistance in knowing the most suitable assessments for the class I designed. Since I am designing a speech class, I worry that some assessments will be less effective. Also, I am concerned because I need my assessments to be appropriate for students with basic computer skills. I do not want my assessments to be too complicated for them in the technological sense.