A Jeanne Site
A Jeanne Site
California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Latest update: September 27, 1999
Takata or Curran.
This lecture was taken from the Measurement of Learning and other assigned web readings. Check the criminology site also.
Comments: I found the lectures last week really helpful and informative...Thanks! It really helped reading how to get down to 25 words too. Sometimes I have so much I want to get across but I know there is an easier way. Please be sure to give credit for this assignment to Bridgette Robinson and Kendra Jones because we all worked on this assignment together, which was also helpful for all of us! Mary Orken.
Browse quickly through Those Infamous Grades and Letters of Recommendation. Be sure that you follow the links to the "Dog" letters, and that you read through some of the theory.
Answer: Jeanne, "we've done it".
Explain in 25 words or so why we call some letters of recommendation "dog" letters.
Answer: Some letters of recommendation are sometimes referred to as "dog" letters because as you said in the lecture, they are so vague that what they could be describing could very well be a letter about a dog!
Explain in 25 words or so whether grades are connected to external or internal measures of learning.
Answer: As a group, we believe that grades are an external measure of learning. As stated on the site, they are the rewards that a person might get for doing what is asked of them. The grades don't really measure what a person knows or feels internally.
Explain in 25 words or so why we believe that authentication of learning must be interdependent and interactive. How could it be interdependent without being interactive?
Answer: We believe that authentication of learning must be interdependent and interactive because both will affect the outcome of what is learned or absorbed by the student and the instructor. If a student asks questions and requests information from his or her instructor, and gets that information from the instructor, then together they are working interactively, as opposed to just having an instructor come in, dictate the lecture, not take or answer any questions, etc. The instructor at the same time can gain knowledge of what his or her students are getting from the class through discussion and by the type of questions being asked.