DUE: OCTOBER 20, 2009    

Note: This assignment has a "re-do" option if you wish to work further once I have given you some feedback and graded your work. The re-do, along with the original, should be submitted by December 1.

Design four different kinds of evaluation strategies for selected learning objectives in your field of expertise. This assignment will be much more valuable if you design strategies that you may actually use someday. If you prefer, you may develop all new learning objectives for this assignment ... or you may base one or more of these strategies on learning objectives that you developed for Assignment #1.

Since you must design four different evaluation strategies, you will probably want to consider a variety of content areas or topics in your field.....and these may even represent different courses or teaching situations. Be imaginative....plan to be effective. You may include class assignments, complex projects, one-on-one activities, group activities, tests -- whatever you believe would be effective to evaluate the learning you intend for your students.  Since your focus is the evaluation of learning -- which may or may not lead to a grade -- you may include strategies that would not be graded.

NOTE:  A really important part of this assignment is your explanation (C) of how the strategy you designed is appropriate for the learning objective you are targeting.

For each of the four evaluation strategies, include:

A. The learning objective(s) or learning outcomes you intend to assess.

B. A description of the evaluation activity. Describe what you expect the students to do so that you can determine whether they have learned (achieved the learning objective or learning outcome).

C. Your explanation of how the evaluation strategy you described is appropriate for the learning objective(s) or learning outcome(s) you designated.

D. A "key" for correct or acceptable student response or behavior. State, describe, or outline the criteria that you would use to evaluate the responses or actions. (Note: Since my field of expertise is not the same as yours, this key is absolutely essential for me to understand your decisions.)

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A. learning objective(s) (1 pt/strategy)                     4 pts.
B. strategy description (4 pts/strategy)                   16 pts.

C. rationale (3 pts/strategy)                                       12 pts.
D. key (2 pts/strategy)                                                  8 pts.
                                                                                        40 pts.

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