Assessment

Understanding by Design (UbD) per se is the solution for my teaching. I learned that this process would make my teaching much easier. Until I took this workshop, because I worked for content, every semester was very difficult for me. I frequently encountered situations in which students did not go in the direction I wanted. Then they were not satisfied with what they were doing and I was always angry about that. To reduce my anger or to satisfy my students, the only thing I could do was to reduce their workloads and lower my expectations. I now can see the big picture of the whole class. I now know what I expect from each assignment and how the assignments are interwoven with each other. My students will also see it very clearly because I will share all the course planning and weekly plans with them in my syllabi and course calendar. This will make my teaching itself very easy and comfortable.

After taking Learning Outcome Approach to Curricular Redesign Workshop in June 2011 at UW-Stevens Point.

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Assess by Using Desire2Learn (D2L) Product

Here is an example of the use of class mapping.