CPE Session 38: Sunday, August 5, 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Are They Really Learning? Classroom Assessment Techniques that Really Work (including assessing Dee Fink's paradigm of learning)

(Accounting)

Description/Objectives:
During this half-day session, you will gain a clear perspective on how to assess student learning. Are your students really achieving the learning goals that you have set up? This session focuses on the good practice of classroom assessment. It can be taken with Session I (CPE Session 28 – Creating Significant Learning in the Classroom) or independently.

The morning session present work based on renowned educator and author, L. Dee Fink, who wrote Creating Significant Learning Experiences. In it we apply his six dimensions of interactive learning.

This second session provides classroom assessment techniques (CATs) to measure whether student learning is being achieved. You do not have to attend the morning session to benefit from this session on CATs. This seminar links directly to AACSB's requirement for the assessment of student learning (Standard No. 18). In the "CAT" session, you will learn:

• The assumptions and characteristics of CATs.
• Multiple purposes and benefits of CATs.
• How to minimize FATs (failed assessment techniques) by learning the principles underlying the good practice of CATs.
• How to redesign your classes to formulate appropriate learning goals, and how to match the appropriate CAT to those learning goals.

Presenters:
David K. Dennis, Otterbein College
Marsha Huber, Otterbein College

Sponsor:
Teaching and Curriculum Section.

Note: CPE fields of study are in parentheses