Hi Pat; thanks for mail. It's a timely inquiry - Data Carpentry is
hiring a full-time Deputy Director of Assessment
(http://www.datacarpentry.org/blog/assessment-director-posting/), and
we're hoping s/he will be able to teach us all what we ought to be doing
about all of this. Do you have a particular timescale in mind?
Cheers,
Greg
On 2016-05-14 11:14 AM, Pat Schloss wrote:
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
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