Participation in a collaborative learning community can be assessed in a number of ways including the following, Peer Review/Evaluation, teacher observation and performance evaluation.
I feel that student can bring varying levels of skill and knowledge to a learning community but the assignment are what will bring the fair and equitable assessment of learning by creating assignments using Bloom’s Taxonomy .
Given that instructors and their students are human there are always factors that will get in the way of successful outcomes. Some elements are beyond our control. But others, such as teams that are not interacting well with one another, are elements the instructor does have some power to deal with. Good planning and preparation for collaborative work as well as continued involvement throughout the phases of engagement can head off or resolve many of the woes that may befall a collaborative activity before they even occur. As student we should encourage fellow classmates when they are not interacting and inform the instructor if needed.
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Iowa State University, Assessment Guidelines.http://www.lc.iastate.edu/assessguide.html
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You made a good concise list of ways students can be assessed. Pointing out that assignments should follow Bloom's Taxonomy is a good way of create fair and equitable assignments. You are right groups are more successful if they plan out their assignments and the how they will handle distribution.
ReplyDeleteThanks Renee. It's easy to describe what I think should be done, but I wonder how difficult it is to implement.
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