Get Your Students Hired
This is a general discussion forum for the following learning topic:
Instructional Planning for Student Success --> Creating an Evaluation System
Post what you've learned about this topic and how you intend to apply it. Feel free to post questions and comments too.
Students must be aware that there will be an opportunity to share their retention of the material. Don't let the medium be the test. Let the student's retention of material be measured in the best way for the student.
I think feedback is an important step in evaluations. It allows students to understand what they are doing well and how they can make improvements on their assignments.
As a new instructor, a great tip that I learned is that by providing students to a variety of ways of earning points will students to show the knowledge they have learned so far in different ways.
Keeping an updated gradebook is important because students are interested in knowing where they stand in the class.
In this lesson, we learned about assessments or evaluations of the student's performance. It was a comprehensive look at how to grade and what variables to consider.
I think it would be helpful to use the idea of asking the question of what they have learned from the unit at the end of an exam for extra credit
Keeping my grade book up to date is a little difficult to do when students missed the quiz and class. But it is important for students to know where they stand in the course and by having all of their points recorded and available you can tell them any time they make such a request. By being current with their scores, you are showing you care about their success.
Offering too much extra credit can defeat the purpose. Be mindful of how you offer extra credit and apply it as an incentive to understand the material better.
Consistency in grading is important. Using a point system allows students to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding in different ways. Keeping your grade book accurate and up to date give students feedback about how they are doing and shows them you care about their work.
Give clear expectations in the beginning of class. Continue to encourage students in ways such as making assignments for extra points.
Grading can be very complex. As the clinical instructor, it seems a little more straightforward. Either the student can perform the skill, verbalize understanding of concepts/medications . . . or not. I like to pose questions that allow the student to elaborate on what steps they would take to problem solve or take care of a patient. I know what key points I expect them to touch on and give the points that way.
A common mistake that new instructors make is to create a point scale that includes points for extra credit, which means in reality that in order for the students to earn the maximum points they really have to earn the extra points to stay within the point category of the grade they are aiming for.
The explanation of how the extra credit points should work in the real world was very informative for me.
Teaching styles and evaluation should align with assessments and if they do not then using the students' input on best ways to yield effective results from those evaluations is important.
Having a discussion with a student that missed assignment a real important step to make early. I do this with my students when needed, but the discussion stops when I feel the student is not living up to his promises. The grade book being up to date will also let the student no that he or she needs to perform better to get back in the game.