Subject: RE: Assessment in math courses
From: Vern Kays (vkays@richland.cc.il.us)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 14:30:28 EST
Assessment and Evaluation are often considered the same thing. They are
not. I do many types of assessment at various levels, individual,
department, college. I also can sometime do evaluation. Evaluation
implies I have the power to influence something like a grade, tenure,
certification, and so on. Sometimes evaluation and assessment go on at the
same time and are even the same instrument. When I give a test I am
assessing and evaluating my students learning. When I give a writing
activity like a journal I am mostly assessing what they know. I may
evaluate the quality of their self-knowledge and their effort but I do not
evaluate at the same level as when I am testing. I test and evaluate in
several different ways: individual (during class time), group (during Class
Time), Individual (Take-Home), and Group (Outside of class). I ask student
to assess the quality of their learning, and the quality of their group
interactions but I do not put much evaluative emphasis on the instrument.
There is also the issue of Summative and Formative Evaluation, where and
how and when is always an issue.
At 01:39 PM 02/29/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm puzzled--how does one assign grades without doing assessments?
>
>Chuck Lindsey, Ph.D. clindsey@fgcu.edu
>Director of General Education
>Associate Professor and Program Leader, Mathematics
>Florida Gulf Coast University
>10501 FGCU Blvd South
>Fort Myers, FL 33965-6565
>Phone: (941) 590-7168 FAX: (941) 590-7200
>http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/clindsey
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cohen, Deborah [SMTP:dcohen@jt.cc.va.us]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 12:39 PM
> > To: mathedcc@archives.math.utk.edu
> > Subject: Assessment in math courses
> >
> > Are any of you currently involved in assessment activities in your classes
> > or departments? If so, what sorts of assessment techniques are you using,
> > and what sorts of results have you found? If you're not interested in
> > assessment in your classes, why not? Any opinions out there about why
> > math
> > faculty are (or at least SEEM) so resistant to doing assessment?
> > Thanks, DC
> > (a 10-year veteran math faculty member who just became an administrator!)
> >
> > Deborah L. Cohen
> > Coordinator of Assessment, Research, and Planning
> > John Tyler Community College
> > 13101 Jefferson Davis Highway
> > Chester, VA 23831
> > email: dcohen@jt.cc.va.us
> > Phone: 804.796.4174
> > FAX: 804.796.4163
> > Web: www.jt.cc.va.us
> >
> >
> >
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Vernon Kays
Assistant Professor Mathematics
IMACC President Elect 2000
email: vkays@richland.cc.il.us
or VernonK787@aol.com
Graduate Student CCLEP
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