Monday, June 11, 2007

exam notes summary

Instructionism: Outcomes based learning
Spady “Know and can do”
Constructivism: Students will only learn at their own level
Piaget: What stage it the child at?
Vygotsky: How do we get the group to the next stage?
Siemens: Social Constructivism: How you learn not what you know
Gardner: Multiple intelligence theory – how we learn affects what we learn


Summative Assessment At end
Formative Assessment Throughout
Objective assessment: Single correct answer
Subjective: more than one answer
Criterion competence in a specific circumstance
Norm-referenced comparing students.
Formal assessment Test, quiz or paper
Informal assessment Does not contribute to a student's final grade
Evaluation: determinations of merit and/or worth. Usually of the course effectivness

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