Discuss the importance of using tests to improve learning and instruction and not just to assign grades.

1. Discuss the importance of using tests to improve learning and instruction and not just to assign grades.
Watch the following 13-minute video on creating multiple-choice questions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irqXYvVnzbk) While watching the video, pay particular attention to how to create the distractors.

After watching the video, create a really good multiple-choice item that you could use as a diagnostic item to include in your Journal. In a diagnostic question, your distractors should reflect mistakes that a student might make. That will let you know what mistake they made if they get the answer incorrect.

2. How might you use rubrics to communicate learning targets in your classroom?
Review the following articles:
Bo, Z., & Misiak, J. (2015). Evaluating three grading methods in middle school science classrooms. Journal of Baltic Science Education, 14(2), 207–215. Retrieved from http://www.scientiasocialis.lt/jbse/files/pdf/vol14/207-215.Zhang_JBSE_Vol.14_No.2.pdf

Peeters, M. J., Sahloff, E. G., & Stone, G. E. (2010). A standardized rubric to evaluate student presentations. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 74(9), 1–8. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com.libauth.purdueglobal.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=67193311&site=eds-live

After reading the articles, answer the following question:

In the article “A Standardized Rubric to Evaluate Student Presentations,” on pages 3 and 4, the authors present a grading rubric for a capstone assessment in pharmacy education. In the article “Evaluating Three Grading Methods in Middle School Science Classrooms,” on page 211 in Table 2 the author presents as an exemplar the rubric from the study used to grade student responses on Knowledge Integration. One is clearly an analytic rubric, and one is clearly a holistic rubric. Which of these rubrics would you prefer to use for an assignment in your class and why? What weakness do you see in the rubric you do not prefer to use?

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