[Assessment 843] Re: Screening for successMarie Cora marie.cora at hotspurpartners.comWed Jul 11 11:47:16 EDT 2007
Hi Laura, Welcome and thanks for your question - which is an excellent one! I'm also looking forward to hearing from subscribers on this question. Some discussion on this can be found in one of the suggested resources, entitled "Pre-assessments for on-line learning". Go to: http://dev.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/assessment/07assess_distance_1.htm l The information in the discussion opens with a focus on "wait periods" or "tryout periods" so that prospective students can self-determine their ability and commitment, but it winds around to discuss assessing skills that people need to engage in technology and distance learning. I'd be very much interested in what List Subscribers think about that discussion and Laura's questions below. Marie Cora Assessment Discussion List Moderator -----Original Message----- From: assessment-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:assessment-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Laura Chenven Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 10:45 AM To: The Assessment Discussion List Subject: [Assessment 842] Re: Questions for discussion Let me raise another question. I am new to this list so it may be something that many of you have already discussed. I work with a national labor/management partnership that supports training and education for the incumbent healthcare workforce. We are supporting several distance learning and hybrid nursing programs. Because these programs are asynchronous for the most part and can fit into many workers busy schedules, there is a great deal of interest in them. However, because we realize that distance learning may not be the best modality for everyone, we want to be able to be able to screen for students who are most likely to be successful in this kind of program and also pinpoint other students who may be successful with some extra help up front. I'd love to hear others experiences with this type of screening. Do you find it necessary? Is it helpful? What have you learned. I'm looking forward to hearing from you. Laura Chenven H-CAP National Coordinator 202 257-7108 lchenven at 1199etjsp.org _____ From: assessment-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:assessment-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Marie Cora Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 10:34 AM To: Assessment at nifl.gov Subject: [Assessment 834] Questions for discussion Hi everyone, It's very quiet out there! I've had many new subscribers join our List, so I know this is of interest to you all. I know you have questions and I know you have experiences to share. Please post them now! Here is one of my questions for this discussion, which actually has already been asked within the suggested preparations by our guests Shannon and Jennifer: Post-testing: How is this done? How do you get that important follow-up measure from students? I have experience in DL within professional development only (not with ABE/ESOL students) - and I know how difficult follow-up is with the professional population. The same goes for regular classroom-based programs - getting full test scores can be really hard. So I am extremely interested in hearing from folks about the strategies and methods they use to get DL students to complete the full cycle including the post-test. Do federal requirements allow for any flexibility/creativity in this regard? Can you use formative assessment and other types of measures to help demonstrate achievement? Do Project IDEAL states do their assessment in the same way, or are you able to alter your approach depending on certain things (levels of funding; timing; some F2F ("face-to-face")/no F2F; staffing; etc)? Thanks!! Marie Cora Marie Cora <mailto:marie.cora at hotspurpartners.com> marie.cora at hotspurpartners.com NIFL Assessment Discussion List Moderator http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/assessment Coordinator, LINCS Assessment Special Collection http://literacy.kent.edu/Midwest/assessment/ . . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/assessment/attachments/20070711/d00a1f0e/attachment.html
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