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Classroom assessment techniques (CATS). What are CATS?. How many of you have seen this book before? Please put your hands up. Congratulations! You just completed a CAT.
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What are CATS? • How many of you have seen this book before? Please put your hands up. • Congratulations! You just completed a CAT. • “A simple method faculty can use to collect feedback, early and often, on how well students are learning what they are being taught.”
Why are CATS? • We use CATS to assess progress toward our teaching goals. • Please take a few minutes to complete the Teaching Goals Inventory, with a particular course in mind.
Example 1Declarative knowledge The one-minute exercise List as many of the six levels of Bloom’s taxonomy as you can. Compare your list with your neighbor and add ones you may have left out. Variations: • List 3 main points of today’s lecture. • What was the muddiest point in my lecture?
Example 2Procedural knowledgeBasic academic skills One-word journals Choose a single word to summarize the following paragraph. Be prepared to explain your word choice to your neighbor.
“…The purpose of Classroom Assessment is to provide faculty and students with information and insights needed to improve teaching effectiveness and learning quality. College instructors use feedback gleaned through Classroom Assessment to inform adjustments in their teaching. Faculty also share feedback with students…to help them improve their learning strategies and study habits… to become more independent, successful learners.”
Example 3Conditional knowledgeApplication, Analysis Compare and contrast the one-minute paper and the one-word journal. • Are they equally usable in class vs. for homework? • Are they equally good at assessing discipline-specific skills vs. study skills? • Are they equally easy for the teacher to prepare? • Do they equally lend themselves to peer interaction? • Are they equally easy to expand into a larger assignment if desired?
Example 4Reflective knowledgeSynthesis, Self-awareness Concept map • Brainstorm ideas related to the concept “Classroom Assessment” • Put “Classroom Assessment” in the middle of a page, and then show how the other ideas are linked to it, e.g. as spokes of a wheel, or as a set of concentric circles, or as a network or road map. Label the links. • Be prepared to share your map with your neighbor, and to discuss similarities and differences.
Example 5Reflective knowledgePersonal/Career Development Look at your Teaching Goals Inventory and select one of your goals for your class. Draft a paragraph describing how this goal could be assessed in a class activity. You may use one of the CATS we have discussed, or invent your own!
Example 6Reflective knowledgeEvaluation Classroom opinion poll/Assignment evaluation Please number an index card from 1 to 3. For each of the following statements, please write whether you agree, are neutral or disagree.
The activities in this session have helped me learn about CATS • This session has added to my self-awareness of my goals as a teacher • This session has encouraged me to begin or continue to use CATS
Sources: • Angelo, T. A. & Cross, P. (1993) Classroom Assessment Techniques (2nd ed.). SF: Jossey-Bass. • Angelo, T. A.(1991). Classroom research: Early lessons from success. New Directions for Teaching and Learning (46). SF: Jossey-Bass. • McGovern, T. Classroom Assessment Strategies. Handout used in “Developing Teachers of Psychology” pre-conference workshop for American Psychological Association.
