C H E R RY DA N I E L S O N E L L E N I V E R S O N

ASSESSING STUDENT LEARNING

AS A RESULT OF

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT PROJECTS

December 12, 2013

CHOOSINGLEARNING OUTCOMES

• What things do you want your students to gain from their civic engagement experience? • Knowledge• Skills• Attitudes• Behaviors

• Do these outcomes make sense considering the time you have available? • To what degree do you think you can affect them?

HELPFUL OUTCOME LANGUAGE

• Psychomotor Skill Domain• Build – Compose – Construct – Design - Originate• Adapt – Revise – Modify • Detect – Differentiate – Distinguish• Calibrate – Demonstrate - Master

• Cognitive Domain• Create• Evaluate• Analyze• Apply• Comprehend• Remember

• Affective Domain• Internalize• Organize• Value • Respond• Receive

Sources: Bloom (1956), Dave (1970), Wick and Phillips (2008)

INFLUENCING LEARNING OUTCOMES

OUTCOME

Effect of activities and teaching methods

Effect of activities and teaching methods

Effect of activities and teaching methods

Effect of activities and teaching methods

Effect of activities and teaching methods

QUALITIES OF ASSESSMENT

• Linked to a particular outcome

• Systematic

• Criterion referenced – (Rubric)

• Covers at least some of the dimensions of the learning outcome

• Can be both formative and summative

• Can be either a measurement or an indicator (proxy)

• Graded and not graded

• Group or individual

Resources: 51 CATs – Angelo and Cross

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ASSESSMENT EXAMPLES

• Project products• Student reflections• Writing projects – Reports - Essays• Survey – including gains• Exam – test abilities or knowledge• Presentations • Posters • Observation• Community partner evaluations

Note: Many of these would need a rubric created to evaluate learning

USE BOTH FORMATIVE AND SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS

Formative:• Identify places in the term where you can support student

learning with formative assessments. • Find out how they are coming along with their civic engagement

project• Are students able to connect the goals of the project with the actual

engagement activity?• Provide feedback, practice, Use reflection opportunities to understand

how students are responding or processing their experience

Summative:• Identify how and when will students demonstrate the

degree to which they have achieved the outcomes• Provide opportunity for students to realize and express their learning

from the project.• How you will know that they have accomplished what you intend?• How will you recognize the unexpected outcomes from the

experience?

Carleton HHMI – Evaluation Framework