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  • Chapter 6: Assessment › Critiques and Oral Assessments › Written Critique

    Individual Learner Critique by Another Learner The instructor may require another learner to present the entire assessment. A variation is for the instructor to ask a number of learners questions about the manner and quality of performance. Discussion ... with all assessments incorporating learner participation, it is important that the instructor maintain firm control over the process. Self-Critique A learner critiques personal performance in a self-critique. Like all other methods, a self-critique receives control and supervision…

  • Chapter 6: Assessment › Critiques and Oral Assessments

    Critiques and Oral Assessments Used in conjunction with either traditional or authentic assessment, the critique is an instructor-to-learner assessment. These methods can also be used either individually, or in a classroom setting. The word critique sometimes ... instructor needs to avoid using this method as an opportunity to be overly critical of learner performance. An effective critique considers good as well as bad performance, the individual parts, relationships of the individual parts, and the overall performance…

  • Chapter 6: Assessment › Critiques and Oral Assessments › Learner-Led Critique

    Instructor/Learner Critique The instructor leads a group discussion in an instructor/learner critique in which members of the class are invited to offer criticism of a performance. This method should be controlled carefully and directed with a clear purpose. It should ... organized, and not allowed to degenerate into a random free-for-all. Learner-Led Critique The instructor asks a learner to lead the assessment in a learner-led critique. The instructor can specify the pattern of organization and the techniques…

  • Appendix B: Developing a Test Item Bank › Written Test Items › Supply Type

    Figure B-1. A bank of test items makes it easier to construct new tests. Written Test Items Supply Type Supply type test items ask the learner to furnish a response in the form of a word, sentence, or paragraph ... supply-type item allows the learner to organize knowledge. It shows an ability to express ideas and measures the learner’s generalized understanding of a subject. For example, the supply type item on a pre-solo knowledge test…

  • Appendix B: Developing a Test Item Bank › Written Test Items › Selection Type

    Selection Type Selection type test items require the learner to select from two or more alternatives. There is a single correct response for each item. It assumes all learners should learn the same thing, and relies on rote memorization ... facts. Written tests made up of selection type items are highly reliable, meaning that the results would be graded the same regardless of the learner taking the test or the person grading it. In fact, this type of test item…

  • Chapter 2: Human Behavior › Definitions of Human Behavior › Instructor and Learner Relationship

    Instructor and Learner Relationship How does personality type testing affect instructors and learners? Research has led many educational psychologists to feel that based on personality type, everyone also has an individual style of learning. In this theory, working with that ... benefits both instructor and learner. Although controversy often swirls around the educational benefits of teaching learners according to personality types, it has gained a large following and been implemented at many levels of education. Today’s learner can visit…