 | |
| PEDA0055-1 | Evaluation of training achievements
 |
|
| Duration : | 15h Th, 15h Pr |
|
| Credits/ECTS : |
| Master in Education Sciences, in-depth approach, 1st year | | Deuxième quadrimestre | | 3 |
|
| Master in Education Sciences, in-depth approach, 2nd year | | Toute l'année | | 3 |
|
| Master in Education Sciences, specialized approach, 1st year | | Deuxième quadrimestre | | 3 |
|
| Master in Education Sciences, specialized approach, 2nd year | | Toute l'année | | 3 |
|
| Master in Education, Professional Focus in Adult Education, 1st year | | Deuxième quadrimestre | | 3 |
|
| Master in Education, Professional Focus in Adult Education, 2nd year | | Toute l'année | | 3 |
|
|
|
| Holder(s) : | Jean‑Luc Gilles |
|
| Language : | Langue française |
|
| Course contents : | Educational assessment of learners is an essential teacher's or trainer's skill. This course will help future teachers or teachers in training to improve the way they produce assessments.
After an introduction to the basic principles of the docimology (the science of the assessment methods in pedagogy), the students will be trained to use a quality management cycle for assessment construction. We will also analyse the characteristics of evaluations in a competency approach and will end by a review of new practices in assessment. |
|
| Course objective : | The students are trained:
- To analyze an evaluation situation placed in its training context in order to understand the purposes, the functions and the impact of it;
- To master and to control the docimological quality of an assessment (with criterias like validity, fidelity, sensibility, equity, authenticity, ...);
- To create the specification table of an assessment;
- To elaborate an assessment plan with various strategies which are coherent with the finalities, the functions and the specifications of the evaluation;
- To propose methods of questioning and methods of data collection in adequacy with the assessment plan;
- To select the information to be communicated to the pupils and, when the situation justifies it, to propose trainings in relation with the assessment procedures;
- To create items and evaluation situations in touch with the objectives and the skills to assess, to control the quality of it;
- To manage banks of items and of assessment situations;
- To prepare and administer fairly the assessments by taking into account the finalities, the functions and the specifications of it;
- To correct in a rigorous way an assessment, to control the quality of the results with edumetric indexes;
- To elaborate diagnostic and personalized feedbacks for the trainees in order to highlight their strengths and weaknesses;
- To communicate with the actors concerned by the assessment (colleagues, people in charge of training courses, trainees, ...) about the docimological process and about its results;
- To propose regulation strategies for the docimological process;
- To contribute to the construction with a team of the docimological material;
- To analyze the impact of the current educational reforms on the assessment practices. |
|
| Prerequisites : | None. |
|
| Workshops : | Practical seminars will be proposed in small groups from 4 to 5 students. Every group will be brought to contact a teacher and to create in team an evaluation which answers his needs. This assessment will be elaborated by respecting the steps of the quality management cycle for assessments construction which will have been detailed during the course. |
|
| Organization : | The course will take place in the second six-month period of the academic schedule. An introductory meeting will be followed of seven meetings of 2 hours courses. Practical work will be able to begin starting from the fourth meeting. |
|
| Written notes : | Two books:
- Nitko, A. (2006). Educational Assessment of Students, Columbus, Ohio : Merrill Prentice Hall (1ère édition 1996).
- Scallon, G. (2004). L'évaluation des apprentissages dans une approche par compétences, Bruxelles : De Boeck.
The PowerPoint slides showed at the time of the course will be placed at the disposal of the students (read below). |
|
| Assessment : | The assessment of the students will be proposed on the basis of:
(1) An open book written test (50% of the final score) with comprehension and analyse questions. This will be composed of:
- 25 multiple choice questions with general implicit solutions, confidence degrees and possibility of short justifications of the answers (trainings will be available before the examination);
- 2 long open end questions about assessment case studies.
(2) A report of the seminar group (50% of the final score). This report will comprise a collective part and a specific part written by each member of the group. |
|
| Contacts : | Contact email: dgie@ulg.ac.be |
|
| Remarks : | A platform to support the trainings organized by the unit of General Didactics and Educational Intervention (GDEI/DGIE (http://www.dgie.ulg.ac.be/index.php?page=presentation&lang=gb) is accessible via the Internet. This platform is entitled DID@CAMPUS and proposes more detailed informations about the courses and seminars:)
www.dgie.ulg.ac.be/didacampus/ (http://www.dgie.ulg.ac.be/didacampus/)
The DID@CAMPUS platform contains a specific part for this course. The students are invited to register in order to obtain:
- last advertisements in relation with the course; - documents and links concerning the concepts explained during the course;
- formative online tests;
- forums of discussion;
-... |
|
|
| |
