Assignment:
Evaluation Mistakes
Jensen (2008) purports that formal assessment often ignores key brain principles regarding learning and memory. He identifies five common mistakes made in the evaluation process.
Prepare
To prepare your written response, begin with the following:
- Read Chapter from Jensen (2008), specifically pages 225-229.
- Read Assessment, Choice, and the Learning Brain.
Reflect
As you read, contemplate any concepts that challenge or stretch your thinking. If any particular ideas or statements ignite feelings of inspiration or conflict within you, contemplate why and consider identifying these for the focus of your response.
Write
- For each of the five mistakes that Jensen (2008) identifies, succinctly identify one key concept that resonates with you. It can either be a new perspective you had not considered, one that expands what you already believed, or one that you may not fully understand or necessarily agree with.
- Provide a specific professional experience or example for one of the five concepts you identified.
- Describe briefly how brain-based assessment principles might impact your own professional practice and learning outcomes.
Prepare
To prepare your written response, begin with the following:
- Read about authentic assessment from the Jensen text (2008), specifically pages 230-233.
- Pay attention to Figure, a graphic representation of the five areas providing a basis for authentic assessment.
- Review the Authentic Assessment sample concept map as a guide before crafting your initial response.
Reflect
Next, revisit and explore the weekly discussions and assignments for all six weeks in this course. Contemplate how the five areas of authentic assessment (i.e., content, emotions, context, processing, and embodiment) provide a basis for the assessments in this specific course. In other words, what do you observe within your own weekly assessments that models authentic assessment?
Create
Create a concept map such as that represented in Figure on page 231 in our text that includes
- A specific discussion, assignment, resource, or other tool from the course for each of the five areas.
- A statement as to how each example fulfills the respective area.
- An example of a related concept map can be found in this week's Weekly Lesson as well as some suggestions for creating graphics in the Recommended Resources list for this week.
Your initial post should include
- Your concept map, either directly embedded or pasted or as an attachment.
- A brief explanation as to how this particular discussion represents authentic assessment.