EDB150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Summative Assessment, Formative Assessment
Approach to Learning:
• Acquisition --> meaning making --> transfer
• Diagnostic assessment : what do they already know, what misconceptions do they carry
• Formative assessment
• Summative assessment
• Assessment for, as and of learning
How students learn and implications for teaching
• Goal: teach with positive effect by responding to how students learn
• Six principles of knowledge acquisition:
o Learning requires time, effort and motivation
o Concentration spans are short
o Distributed practice is more effective than massed practice or cramming
o Prior knowledge effects are powerful
o Your mind responds well to multimedia input
o To learn, your mind has to be active
• Six principles of memory retention:
o To recognise is easy, to recall is hard
o Information given first and information given last is often recalled more easily
o Over time, there are different rates of forgetting
o Memory is a highly constructive process
o Principle of savings: what is forgotten can still help
o Your memory is subject to interference
• As teachers, how do we facilitate memory retention?
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