Aligning Goals with my course

The content material to be covered in different learning outcomes has to be delivered at different cognitive levels. These cognitive levels vary from learn to understand to evaluate to apply. Based on these cognitive levels a suitable teaching strategy needs implemented and an appropriate assessment strategy devised.

Some of the assessments are formative thus providing students timely feedback where as some of the assessments are summative. Comprehensive real world projects with presentation and oral defense cover all the cognitive levels effectively: Learn the basic definition; Understand the concepts behind them; Evaluate and apply these concepts to a given scenario and give recommendations.

100 Ideas for Assessment (part 2)

Not all the assessment ideas are applicable to all the courses. Some of the assessments are standard but some can be varied according to the nature and level of course.

Giving students answers and asking them to construct questions in as many different ways as possible is a very effective learning technique. This type of flipped learning technique can lead to more in depth learning compared to conventional question answer exam.

Also, students can write case studies based on the topics they had learnt. As they build the scenario, starting from concept to solution it will be a complete learning experience for them for that particular level.

Giving a quiz before the lesson and then the same after the lesson can give us some interesting results. It will also motivate the students to go over the course material before coming to the class. This will also reflect the effectiveness of lesson delivery and teaching methodology.

Blog is gives them a platform for self-reflection. What they did, what did they expect the result to be, how was it different, what would they change next time etc reflects their understanding of the matter and develops an analytical and critical approach to it.

What about your students?

The particular body of students I was teaching while doing the Module III was year 3 bachelor students at HCT. Most of them were full time students with the exception of few who were full time students as well as working in the evenings.

The common motivating factor for everyone in the class was to be able to engage them in a particular topic and create a healthy sense of completion through class tasks assigned in pairs or groups.

BMFS N300 Financial Management Fundamentals gives them the necessary skills to calculate and interpret the results to comment on the financial health of a company.

Learning process is based on a variety of class activities ranging from numerical exercise sets to presentation of the finding to recommendation for the future. Learning is assessed using a variety of assessment tools both individual and group. Timed assessments, real world projects, presentation and oral defense being part of it.