EDN 501: Course Schedule

Course Schedule
EDN 501: Authentic Assessment Strategies for the Classroom

DATES	TOPICS	READINGS	ASSIGNMENTS
		Required readings in bold*
June 9	Approaches to Assessment	What is it? Why do it?
June 10	Standards	Standards Step 1: Identify the Standards Standards-based education How and why standards.. Assessing habits of mind Good standards? Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy
June 11	Authentic Tasks	Tasks Step 2: Select an Authentic Task Why people fail to...

June 16	Authentic Tasks	Instructional quality: Collecting credible evidence Step 3: Identify the Criteria Reliability and Validity How classroom assessments improve learning Task sampler (long, but lots of good examples across subjects) Examples: Assessing oral presentations	Critique 1 due
June 17	Criteria and Rubrics	Rubrics Step 4: Create the Rubric Rubric sampler (long, but many good examples)
June 18	EXAM 1 / Criteria and Rubrics	Feedback

June 23	Workshop	Seven practices A critique of learning styles A critique of multiple intelligences Feedback interventions...
June 24	Portfolios	Portfolios Lessons learned about student portfolios	Critique 2 due
June 25	Standardized Testing	Why standardized tests don't measure educational quality

June 30	Traditional Assessment	Constructing Good Tests
July 1	Traditional Assessment	Do tests align with standards?
July 2	EXAM 2 / Sharing of Projects		Project Due