EDN 501: Course Schedule

Course Schedule
EDN 501: Authentic Assessment Strategies for the Classroom

DATES	TOPICS	READINGS	ASSIGNMENTS
		Required readings in bold*
Jan 5	Approaches to Assessment	What is it? Why do it?

Jan 12	Standards and Authentic Tasks	Standards Step 1: Identify the Standards Standards-based education How and why standards... Assessing habits of mind Good standards? Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy Two-dimensional structure Revised wording

Jan 19	Standards and Authentic Tasks	Tasks Step 2: Select an Authentic Task Instructional quality: Collecting credible evidence How classroom assessments improve learning Task sampler (long, but lots of good examples across subjects) Examples: Assessing oral presentations	Critique 1 due

Jan 26	Criteria and Rubrics	Step 3: Identify the Criteria Rubrics Reliability and Validity Feedback

Feb 2	EXAM 1 / Criteria and Rubrics	Step 4: Create the Rubric Rubric sampler (long, but many good examples)

Feb 9	Portfolios	Portfolios Lessons learned about student portfolios	Critique 2 due

Feb 16	Workshop	Seven practices A critique of learning styles A critique of multiple intelligences Feedback interventions...

Feb 23	Traditional Assessments	Constructing good tests Cognitive load theory

Mar 2	Traditional Assessments	Do tests align with standards?	Critique 3 due

Mar 9	EXAM 2 / Standardized Assessments	Why standardized tests don't measure educational quality The inevitable corruption... (Warning: 187 pages long) If I were America's assessment czar	Final Project due Final Report due