That’s great news! This is something that I know I need to do, but have been kicking down the road for a while. Probably time to stop letting perfect be the enemy of the good and just do something and see what happens.
Pat > On May 14, 2016, at 6:38 PM, Greg Wilson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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/ > <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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >> <http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss> > -- > Dr Greg Wilson > Director of Instructor Training > Software Carpentry Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
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