Learning process in focus: using formative assessment in your course (D)
Dates and amount of working units:
- MON 09th of October 2023; 9AM-1PM (4 AE)
- TUE 10th-THUR 17th of October 2023: self-directed learning phase (2 AE)
- THUR 18th of October 2023; 9AM-11AM (2 AE)
Registration:
Please register until MON 25th of September.
Later registrations will be considered dependently on the registration status.
Content:
The main didactic function of formative assessment is to provide learners with feedback on their performance for the enhancement of learning. As such, formative assessment can make progress in learning transparent and can highlight discrepancies between the current and target state of learning. This supports students’ learning process, increases their learning motivation, and allows them to develop both (lifelong) learning and self-reflexive skills. For teachers, formative assessment can be used as feedback about one’s teaching, which in turn can be used to better facilitate and support students’ learning processes.
In this workshop, we examine what functions and forms formative assessment (as distinct from summative assessment) can have for both learners and teachers within a higher education context. Participants explore what forms of formative assessment are relevant and applicable to their own teaching. Working on a course they are teaching or planning to teach, participants build formative assessment into their course design.
Precondition for taking part in this workshop, is working on a specific course design, either from a class you already tought, you are currently teaching, or planning to teach.
Goals:
Participants are able to
- compare the pro’s and con’s of formative and summative assessment within the context of their own teaching;
- design university courses that include formal and/or informal formative assessment;
- use formative assessment to improve their own teaching skills and process.
Venue:
Göttingen, Waldweg 26, 3rd floor, room 3.117/119
Used methods:
Group work, individual reflection and course design, short input lecture, peer feedback, self-directed learning
Course language: English
Trainer:
Dr. Eva-Maria van Straaten: taught as a research assistant and substitute professor at the musicology department of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 2011-2022, before joining the Section for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in 2022. There she is responsible for LInK “Learning, interacting, and cooperating,” a project that develops an innovative teaching and learning design for large group lectures.