No Series: Transforming Assessment Into Authentic Engagement for 21st Century Learning

Transforming Assessment Into Authentic Engagement for 21st Century Learning

Lesson Objective: Learn assessment strategies and techniques designed to be integrated into your daily academic practice.
Webinar / Assessment / Engagement
59 MIN

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Discussion and Supporting Materials

Thought starters

  1. What are "desirable difficulties"? How do they support student learning?
  2. How does allowing students to struggle with content benefit them?
  3. How might you replicate real-world challenging situations in your classroom?

11 Comments

  • Private message to Dana Hill

Dana Hill   May 23, 2022

GlenOak High School

Students benefit from struggling because struggle is part of the process.  Whatever challenges students experience when they have to think critically to figure it out and then reflect on the process, causes them to learn.  Rubrics that grade the process and content knowledge and not the product are more desirable.  It is better to offer multiple opportunities to show learning through doing.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • Private message to Jeremy Dixon

Desirable difficulty for a student is giving the right amout of difficulty to where it will challenge them but also within their means to use their problem solving skills. You will not ask a baby to do something a toddler is doing, like walking, communicating with words, or be somewhat independent.

It was stated that, "Struggle makes it stick" in which I agree very much so. Without struggling you will not remember because it was given to you or came very easy. Having to work for it makes you remember not only the outcome but the struggle to obtain the answer. "If you don't remember when you leave class, then what good is it," is another great and valid point. I you can't remember when you leave class then you will not know it when you need it.

By adding group work, it works on their social skills and also working with a group gives you many different point of views on how to look at the same situation. This is training them to look at every point of view, listen to other's ideas on how to address the situation, and be prepared and not painic in real world situations.

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  • Private message to William Sullivan

It can be difficult providing the right amount of difficulty for students who need to get used to solving problems in real world situations. Students who may be below the standard will need more support. Group work is a good idea because it adds a social solution which will often be the case with real world situations.

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  • Private message to Eliza Kelley

Desirable difficulties (to me) means that your curriculum(teaching tools) should have some challenging aspects to complete and thus foster intellectual engagement 

When your students have a chance to "think outside the box" this opens up many aspects that could have been overlooked if the challenge was not present. When we give students "real-world" scenarios that they can relate to(as well as the teacher) this gives the students an opportunity to express themselves and foster engagement in the process 

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  • Private message to Jocelyn Valdez Galan

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