Susan,
I'm nervous about two of the words you use in describing your
activity--"list" and "essay" (even a short one). In most cases, lists and
essays move you away from the 4-S's. The thing I think would help most is
being really clear about what you want your students to DO and I think
Jim's suggestion is clearly a move in that direction. I think it deals with
the "do" of, "I want my students to critically evaluate literature that
addresses "horse health". If that's what you want your students to do, then
I think it would be a really great way to assess their ability to
critically analyze the literature. If that's not your objective,you can't
lose if you stick with "backwards design" and the 4-S's in deciding what to
do.
Larry
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Sibley, James Edward <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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> Hope you are well
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> Reading your post….I wonder if there is a deeper questions for the
> students
>
> "scientific articles of the highest quality " seems to be a good phrase
> to pick on
>
> What criteria should we use to select the best paper?
>
> Once we establish class consensus on criteria…then lets apply them and
> compere the results
>
> Then the report conversation would be about "why did you picked that
> paper"….…."what criteria did you use?"…."how did you apply the criteria?"
>
> Focusing on selection criteria might give more comparability at report
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> The rest looks great…you have good intentionality and students will be
> doing a very authentic task
>
> jim
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> Subject: Integrating TBL principles into an assessment task
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> Hi All,****
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> I’m currently redesigning some assessment tasks for a 2nd year course.
> I’ll be using TBL in 3 sessions in the course (the students embraced it in 1
> st yr) but my question is directed at how to integrate TBL into an
> assessment task. ****
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> The students have traditionally done a lit review of a scenario relating
> to horse health. Each year many have struggled with critically reviewing
> literature, and this year I want to scaffold them more. What I envisage is:
> ****
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> - annotated bibliographies ****
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> - individual students to annotate 3 original scientific articles
> relevant to an essay question (I’m thinking something like ‘What are the
> main risk factors for colic in horses’). They would have time to do this
> during tutorials. It would be worth individual marks.****
>
> - Each TBL team will review the scientific articles from its
> individual members, and come up with a list of 10 (?) scientific articles
> of the highest quality to answer the question.****
>
> - Each TBL team would then write a short essay (? No of words)
> to answer the question.****
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> - We’d finish up with a galley walk and each team would assess
> the 10 scientific articles and the short essay of the other teams and give
> marks.****
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> - Finally we’d do simultaneous reporting to decide on the best
> 10 articles and the best essay. ****
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> Has anybody done something similar? I know during a workshop last year in
> Adelaide Larry Michaelsen mentioned something similar. ****
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> Thanks,
> Susan****
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