Educative Assessment

Week 2

Educative Assessment

Forward-Looking Assessment

Ask students to imagine that their first job out of college is to be a research assistant for a sociologist.  Their supervisor is designing a research project, but needs background information about the topic and asks them to write an annotated bibliography of what they find.  The activities in this library class will prepare them for this work.

Criteria & Standards

Learning Outcome: Students will indicate the most important concepts of their research question in order to design database searches and find two relevant scholarly articles.

High Achievement	Moderate Achievement	Low Achievement
Students will successfully identify the key concepts contained in their research question on a worksheet.	Students identify more than one key concept of their research question on a worksheet, but also choose extraneous wording from their question.	Students are unable to successfully identify more than one key concept contained in their research question on a worksheet.
Students use a combination of their key concepts and proper search syntax to design and carry out a database search.	Students find any two articles, but they are not particularly relevant or they did not design their search properly.	Students are unable to find relevant results in a database search because they use improper search phrases and/or proper search syntax.

Self-Assessment

Learning Outcome: Students will assess two articles they find in order to decide whether they are pertinent to their research project.

Activitiy: Ask students to reflect and briefly write about why or why not the articles may be useful for their research.

FIDeLity Feedback

The class I’m teaching has quite a bit of independent work (though students could also work in pairs.)  Just walking around and interacting with the students while they complete their active learning projects will provide frequent and immediate feedback lovingly delivered.