EDUF2006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Norm-Referenced Test, Summative Assessment, Behaviorism
13 Aug 2019
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Key principle: your view of what learning is and how it occurs will fundamentally shape how you teach. Answer: to impart knowledge or to instruct someone as to how to do something. Question: what is learning: absorbing or acquiring knowledge that has been instructed to you, discovering new things that you did not previously know. and add a table, some chairs, the bare walls, and possibly a few pictures, we can reconstruct the only educational activity that can possibly go on in such a place. It is all made for listening. (dewey, 1899/1969) Transmission teaching: teacher centred classroom, high proportion of teacher talk (70%, considers the student to be a passive recipient of knowledge, classroom definitely not set up for group work. Knowledge is seen as certain & unproblematic. Knowledge is seen as fixed & objective. The teacher or the textbook is considered the knowledge authority. A focus on summative assessment (assessing outcomes)
