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Designing Exams to Test Higher Levels of Learning Diana Skrzydlo, Continuing Lecturer Outline Learning Taxonomies Assessment is Curriculum Higher Level Questions Examples How you can use these ideas Learning Taxonomies

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Designing Exams to Test Higher Levels of Learning

Diana Skrzydlo, Continuing Lecturer

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Outline

  • Learning Taxonomies
  • Assessment is Curriculum
  • Higher Level Questions
  • Examples
  • How you can use these ideas
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Learning Taxonomies – Bloom’s

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Learning Taxonomies – Marzano’s

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Assessment is Curriculum

  • What is important that your students know?

What skills do you want them to have?

  • Test them on that!
  • But how…
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How to Think of High Level Qs

  • Look for inspiration in Bloom/Marzano verb

lists

  • Keep a list as you teach of interesting ideas
  • When creating your tests, insert where

appropriate

  • Practice: the more you do it, the easier it

gets!

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How to Include High Level Qs

  • Start with a simple calculation
  • Can give the answer to less accuracy – why?
  • Then some more complex calculations
  • Using the first part or similar techniques
  • Finally a conceptual question
  • Extending the material
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How to Include High Level Qs

  • Prove/Disprove instead of True/False
  • Ask to graph something
  • Apply models to a completely new situation
  • Translate between symbols and words
  • Similarities and differences
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How to Grade High Level Qs

  • Look for key words
  • Scan through several responses before

starting, to determine quality benchmarks

  • Use a rubric
  • Design questions that can be easier to mark
  • Matching/checkbox vs listing
  • Graphing vs describing
  • Prove/disprove
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Example 1 - Probability

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Example 2 – Financial Math

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Example 3 – Life Cons 1

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Example 4 – Life Cons 2

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Example 5 – Probability Models

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Example 6 – Time Series

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How You Can Use These Ideas

  • Universally applicable
  • Test what you teach
  • Brainstorm questions throughout the term
  • Give students consistent assessments
  • Explain the importance of understanding
  • You can do it!
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Thank You

Diana Skrzydlo dkchisho@uwaterloo.ca Teaching blog: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~dkchisho/teachingblog.html