Are you using or planning to use the Scorecard? Tweet us at nyu-ejroc and use the hashtag Data4EdJustice. See more blogs from There were two main tasks to tackle: describing and critiquing culturally destructive curriculum, and imagining and describing intersectional and critical, culturally responsive curriculum.
It was much easier to talk about what culturally responsive curriculum was not than to talk about what it was , because there are so many examples of problematic curricula. About the CRC Scorecard The Scorecard should be used by anyone committed to culturally responsive and equitable education. What is Culturally Responsive Education? Dreamkeepers: Successful teachers of African American Children. Contact: Paul Myhre myhrep wabash. That is, they must implement sound educational practices related to curriculum, instruction, supervision, assessment, and administration.
There is a variety of ways to assess the effectiveness of the curriculum, and there are several levels of assessment program-level, course-level, student testing, student projects, etc. While faculty members can focus on course-level and individual student learning assessment, academic deans need to focus on program-level assessment in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the school's curricular course of study.
Here are ten basic curriculum assessment tools every academic dean needs, nine are covered in previous posts:. Outcomes alignment worksheet Syllabus assessment worksheet Curriculum maps Program-level rubrics Alumni survey Grade Distribution report Program retention and completion rate worksheets Entering student profile Graduating class profile Student course evaluations.
Student course evaluations, a form of indirect assessment, can be a meaningful component of a school's formative assessment of its curriculum. Unfortunately, most course evaluation tools do not provide sufficiently meaningful data to be helpful. One evidence may be how difficult it is for most schools to collect meaningful data from the evaluations.
Another is how students tend to see them as a chore, resulting in cursory responses and a low rate of return. Further, in most cases, the data collected rarely is analyzed at depth or used to prompt pedagogical actions for improvement in teaching and learning.
Two approaches can help make course evaluations worth the trouble for students and for deans. First, a better-designed course evaluation tool, and second, a procedure that helps ensure a higher response rate.
An effective student course evaluation tool will provide data and feedback that is meaningful. Activation Lab ActLab : ActLab is a national effort to learn and demonstrate how to activate children in ways that ignite persistent engagement in science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics learning and innovation. Visit the website to find a variety of instruments developed and tested by ActLab to measure constructs such as science learning activation, engagement, and scientific sensemaking.
Members pay an annual fee. Each instrument comes with instructions for use and scoring. EvalFest : Originally formed to support the science festival community, EvalFest has built a suite of resources that are useful to all kinds of informal learning professionals. They have gathered several instruments that can help you collect data at public events, and developed videos and other training tools around data collection, management, and analysis.
From Soft Skills to Hard Data: Measuring Youth Program Outcomes : In this document, the Forum for Youth Investment reviews ten outcome measurement tools appropriate for use in afterschool and other settings to measure soft skills such as communication, collaboration, critical thinking, decision making, initiative, and self-direction.
For each tool, it provides sample items and information about usability, cost, and evidence of reliability and validity. Use the search filters to find tools specific to your educational setting, audience, content area, and more! Although targeted for those who work in school environments, it provides extensive evaluation resources and samples—instruments, plans, and reports that can be modeled, adapted, or used as is.
Rubrics Rubrics are used to identify levels performance of a specific task. Beginning 1 Developing 2 Accomplished 3 Exemplary 4 Criteria 1 Description reflecting beginning level of performance.
Description reflecting movement toward mastery level of performance. Description reflecting achievement of mastery level of performance. Description reflecting highest level of performance.
Criteria 2 Description reflecting beginning level of performance. Level Description 5 Demonstrates complete understanding of the problem. All requirements of task are included in the response. Most requirements of task are included in the response.
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