One of the greatest challenges in assessing student performance is providing students with the detailed and appropriate feedback they need to learn from their mistakes. Summative assessments, in the form of exams, are used to determine what students have learned from a particular unit of instruction and oftentimes what they have learned throughout the entire semester. However, students have a tendency to focus only on the grade and not what they did correctly or incorrectly on the exam and why some answers were acceptable and others were not. In this chapter, the author shares a technique—Exam Evaluation—to encourage students to use exams as a learning tool. The technique is a simple assessment that allows teachers to examine what students think they are learning from exams and tests.
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Type Book ChapterPub Date 2/1/2009Stock # PB231X_17