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A6: Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) - Additional Resources
Below are online resources which may help you in preparation.
Take a moment to visit each. If you find a resource particularly helpful,
remember to bookmark that page to make it easier to return to it at a
later time.
The Benefits of CATs Online
The biggest plus for using online classroom assessment
techniques (if you can imagine a virtual classroom) is that CATs involve
all parties -- students and teachers -- in a continuous monitoring of
learning. Online instructors receive feedback about their own effectiveness
and that of their online course materials, and they, in turn, provide
their students with measures of their progress. The major research in
classroom assessment techniques can be found in Thomas A. Angelo's and
K. Patricia Cross' Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for
College Teachers, 2nd Ed. Excerpts can be found at this site, hosted
by Honolulu Community College.
Twenty Commonly Used Assessment Techniques
The importance of classroom assessment is summarized,
along with descriptions, in Douglas J. Eder's web site hosted at the
Southern Illinois University. Eder (Associate Professor of Neuroscience)
states that these assessment techniques can yield immediate results in
your own classes. Other CATs are described on Eder's site, and at this
site hosted at Hawaii Community College.
Practical examples of
CATs used successfully in online and face-to-face classes are
described in this web site developed at Pennsylvania State University
entitled An Introduction to Classroom Assessment Techniques.
Diane M. Enerson, Kathryn M. Plank, and R. Neill Johnson, researchers
at the PSU's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, describe
examples that work, including the background knowledge probe, category
grids, documented problems, and misconception/preconception assessments.
Assessment and Evaluation on the Internet
This list of online materials on assessment and evaluation
was compiled by Liselle Drake & Lawrence Rudner, an excellent resource
for anyone serious about classroom assessment.
Classroom and Course Assessment
This list of educational resources compiled by the
University at Buffalo Educational Technology Center contains dozens of
links useful to faculty designing their own assessment strategies:
The Virtual Professor
References for Online Educators: Articles for educators
who teach online on such topics as classrooms using Internet, copyright,
discussion forums, ethics, journals, news, texts, plagiarism, etc.
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