CPE Session 39: Sunday, August 3, 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Closing the Loop: Using Classroom Assessment Techniques
to Improve Student Learning
(Accounting – Basic)
[SESSION FULL]
Description/Objectives:
Strategies will be presented on how to use Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) to uncover and solve problems related to student learning. In order to "close the loop," faculty members need to make students explicitly aware of how CATs are being used contemporaneously to improve their courses. During the session, you will be asked to create a new CAT (with a feedback mechanism) that addresses problems in your courses.
This seminar links directly to AACSB's requirement for the assessment of student learning (Standard 18). In this session, you will learn:
- How to design CATs to gain understanding of students’ thinking and to obtain answers about whether or why students are or are not learning. In addition, strategies will be presented that encourage good CAT design.
- How to "close the loop" by providing timely feedback to students. In addition, the facilitators will explain how they revised their classes during the quarter based on the feedback from the CATs.
- About and receive examples of practical CATs that can be used to revise courses as well as creating a new CAT (with feedback mechanisms) in the session for use in your classes.
Prerequisites:
Morning session on "How to Incorporate Experiential Learning in Every Course using Dee Fink's "Paradigm of Significant Learning" can be taken in conjunction with the class, but is not required.
Advance Preparation:
Bring a course syllabus with you that you would like to add CATs to.
Presenters:
David Dennis, Otterbein College
Marsha Huber, Otterbein College
Larita Killian, Indiana University – Purdue University Columbus
Note: CPE fields of study are in parentheses