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Physics Education Seminar - Yuhfen Lin (California State Univeristy, Chico) Assessment Reform, Moving toward Performance Based Assessment

Yuhfen Lin, California State University, Chico
November 9, 2016
3:00PM - 4:00PM
1080 Physics Research Building - Smith Seminar Room

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-09 15:00:00 2016-11-09 16:00:00 Physics Education Seminar - Yuhfen Lin (California State Univeristy, Chico) Assessment Reform, Moving toward Performance Based Assessment Physicists would all agree that there are a lot of skills students learn in the physics class. But traditional assessment in regular physics courses only assess very limited spectrum of skills. If we want students to value those scientific abilities we try so hard to include in our instruction, we must find way to assess them. Here I am going to present how we restructured the grading system to shift towards performance based formative assessment. Also I will give some examples of the homework/exam problems we used to assess specific scientific abilities.  1080 Physics Research Building - Smith Seminar Room Department of Physics physics@osu.edu America/New_York public

Physicists would all agree that there are a lot of skills students learn in the physics class. But traditional assessment in regular physics courses only assess very limited spectrum of skills. If we want students to value those scientific abilities we try so hard to include in our instruction, we must find way to assess them. Here I am going to present how we restructured the grading system to shift towards performance based formative assessment. Also I will give some examples of the homework/exam problems we used to assess specific scientific abilities.