Hey everyone, Something I’ve been thinking about for a while with regards to my on campus teaching and other workshops I teach is developing a pre and post course assessment to demonstrate that the students have learned something. I’ve struggled to think of something meaningful since many people that take a bioinformatics course and most likely SWC/DC courses have little prior background. I like the idea of measuring the delta but because so many of the learning goals/objectives are pretty technical I don’t know what to do at time=0. Perhaps the initial assessment could be more conceptual (e.g. explain DRY) or reactive (e.g. explain what this function does) and the final assessment could be more performance based (e.g. make code DRY / write the function from the pre-test).
Has anyone out there developed an assessment tool that you use before and after their own programming courses or SWC/DC workshops? I’d be curious to hear what people have included and what others might think would be useful to have on such an assessment. Thanks! Pat Schloss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
