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> almost nothing matters except how I assess students This is a reasonable opinion after two semesters. IMO, with more experience you should have modified you
by fn-mote 2mo ago
> almost nothing matters except how I assess students
This is a reasonable opinion after two semesters.
IMO, with more experience you should have modified your stance.
If all classes were pointless, students would leave at the same point they entered. Since we observe that is not the case, something is happening in class. Do more of that.
- jkhdigital 2mo agoYou’re conflating the course and the classroom. The explicitly stated goal of most courses is mastery of a well-defined set of domain-specific knowledge and skills. The only way to objectively determine if the course achieved that goal for a given student is comprehensive assessment. Bad assessment design, much like bad experiment design in science, is worse than useless—it actively misleads and confuses. A well-designed, repeatable, reliable assessment is a prerequisite before one can even consider the effects of particular pedagogical methods inside or outside of the classroom itself.