We will have both informal and formal formative assessments and a formal summative assessment. The informal assessments will take the form of general progress monitoring during class work, including group work, as well as a Socratic Seminar in Psychology. These informal assessments will allow instructors to see whether or not students understand the content. In the Socratic Seminar students will demonstrate to the instructor that they not only understand the content but are able to interact with it and form an opinion based on their content knowledge. The instructor can use The Socratic Seminar to adjust their lesson to fill in any gaps that students demonstrate and reteach content.
In Physics we will have a formal formative assessment, a quiz. This quiz will be given in order to ensure students understand the theory and math behind the concepts that they are learning. They demonstrate their understand of this portion of the difficult content before we move on and build off of what we have learned the first week of the unit. This is designed to check for mastery of the content before going on to more complex material based on the previously taught theories and formulas. It will allow the instructor to use remediation of necessary for some students and to make sure that students demonstrate mastery of the content information before moving on.
At the end of the unit there will be a formal summative assessment of their unit presentation to middle schoolers. We have created a rubric on which to grade these presentations, where we check for four main areas: content knowledge, presentation material, verbal and nonverbal skills.
In Physics we will have a formal formative assessment, a quiz. This quiz will be given in order to ensure students understand the theory and math behind the concepts that they are learning. They demonstrate their understand of this portion of the difficult content before we move on and build off of what we have learned the first week of the unit. This is designed to check for mastery of the content before going on to more complex material based on the previously taught theories and formulas. It will allow the instructor to use remediation of necessary for some students and to make sure that students demonstrate mastery of the content information before moving on.
At the end of the unit there will be a formal summative assessment of their unit presentation to middle schoolers. We have created a rubric on which to grade these presentations, where we check for four main areas: content knowledge, presentation material, verbal and nonverbal skills.