Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Prompt #6: Educational Psychology, Chapter 14


Review your notes/highlights of Chapter 14.  

What concept or idea in that chapter resonated most with you?  Tell us why.

Prompt #7: Educational Psychology, Chapter 15


Formative and summative assessments are discussed in Chapter 15. 

An analogy of those has been posited as follows: summative assessments are like an autopsy, while formative assessments are like regular physicals done by a physician. 

In relation to some hobby you have or work skill you possess, describe what a formative and a summative assessment for that skill might look like.

Prompt #8: Assessment Task 1.0


View the musical rendition provided by Jason Mraz at this link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDftOxHLN98

Give him a grade for the performance.  Provide rationale for the grade that you give.

Prompt #9: Assessment Task 2.0


Please view the musical rendition provided by the artist at this link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErMWX--UJZ4

Give him a grade for the performance.  Provide rationale for the grade that you give.

Prompt #10: Malisimo List


In the style of a David Letterman Top 10 List, create a “Top 5 Things You Really Shouldn’t Do As a Grader of Student Work.”

Prompt #11: Pinging Each Others’ Brains


Look at the responses of your classmates in prompts 1-10.  

Pick at least two and respond to them in some substantive way.