tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post3469949902255268401..comments2024-03-14T04:16:20.472-07:00Comments on In Socrates' Wake: How do we know whether our students learned what we wanted them to?Michael Cholbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02012523929044363216noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post-58776855509644218262013-11-25T10:02:42.042-08:002013-11-25T10:02:42.042-08:00Hello Harry,
While I practice and teach a differe...Hello Harry,<br /><br />While I practice and teach a different discipline than yours - architecture - I have followed your blog for some time, enjoying your posts that highlight the similarities more than the differences in our professions.<br /><br />A few years back as the department chair I was presented a similar assessment scenario, and would like to share the results of our process, which resulted in a paper presented at our national annual conference. The paper titled a Collective Theory of Architectural Education, [Dirlam, D. K. and Singeisen, S. R. (2009). Collaboratively Crafting a Unique Architecture Education through MODEL Assessment. In P. Crisman and M. Gillem (Eds.) The Value of Design (pp. 445-455), Washington, DC: ACSA Publishing.], outlines how we structured the process by beginning with interviews of faculty members; included the law of succession, which has been shown to apply to historical and developmental strategies as well as ecosystem changes; improved assessment reliability; and helped students set goals.<br /><br />I'd be happy to send you the full paper if you want to email me. ssingeisen@gmail.com<br /><br />Best,<br />ScottScotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16013137293782573348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post-43575882521260919162013-11-19T06:25:51.396-08:002013-11-19T06:25:51.396-08:00This is a great idea Harry! I really would love to...This is a great idea Harry! I really would love to see copy of the tests you use. I have considered doing something like that for our own assessment. <br /><br />One imperfect measure I have used is to survey students in upper-level philosophy courses about their experience in Intro to philosophy. I ask them about how well that course prepared them for the upper-level course they are taking and I break it down in terms of our learning objectives: reading philosophy, writing philosophy, defending a position, etc. One advantage of doing it this way is that you can find out whether students take themselves to have learned skills in Intro to Philosophy that enable them to do better in the upper-level courses. Jennifer M Mortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00605594189543742740noreply@blogger.com