Class Notes 7-29-10

Alignment = Objectives (outcomes) - Assessment - Content (activities ec)

Outcomes - Know, be able to do…

Assessments are proxies
    -Indirect
    -Noise / Error

Content
   
   
Generally in the real world it works backward = Content - Assessment - Outcomes

Mager - Objectives guy

    "The Mager six pack" the six books he wrote
   
    Audience - Who?
   
    Behavior - What
   
    Conditions - constraints / supports
   
    Degree - how well
   
   
   
    Alignment of objectives with assessments with content
    Mager's ABCD for writing objectives:
        • Audience - who is going to do? (e.g., students)
        • Behavior - what exactly are they going to do? (multiply two three-digit numbers)
        • Conditions - in what environment, with supports, or under what constraints must performance occur (e.g., without using a calculator)
        • Degree - what level of performance is deemed acceptable? (e.g., accurate 85% of the time)
    The fascination with lists of B verbs, e.g., http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm
   
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Work Model Synthesis
    "Gibbons described Work Model Synthesis as 'systematically combin[ing] and recombin[ing] tasks and objectives that through task analysis procedures have been fragmented at a low level.' Thus, work models are collections of individual objectives... that have been recombined into activities that real people perform in the real world, and therefore have value in the real world." From Learning Object Design and Sequencing Theory, Wiley, 2000.
   
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    Ex write a resume - bringing together styling formatting typing proof reading ect
   
Testlets - bundle of assessments

    Multiple forms of assessment that measure the same outcome
   


TED

The payoffs to innovation is usually when the uncertainty is the highest

Charles Leadbeter


Learning Analytics

    Based off of the model for web analytics
        Google analytics
        Userfly
   
    Analogy of going to a  doctor and not telling them the details of your pain
   
   
    Technology can really influence the type of feedback we give to our students. - We have access to so much information about the process we can make informed
   
   
    Need courses on how to capture the information
   
    How do we analyze the data
   
    The more data we can get the better analytics we can get the better learning we can design