ED103 - Student Learning and Assessment
Educators work with students who want to learn specific skills that will lead to fulfilling careers. As educational instructors it is our job to help each student to achieve this goal. Just as you may have a particular style of teaching that you prefer, your students have preferred ways of learning. This course will help you to identify the different learning styles of your students so that you can adjust your instruction to better accommodate them. Good teachers also regularly monitor the effectiveness of their instruction by assessing their students’ learning. This course will examine several aspects of assessment including how to create good tests, how to ask effective questions and how to get your students to actively participate in their learning by asking questions themselves.
Course Reviews
Course Rating
"The material was very informative. I felt as if I was in a college classroom."
"Excellent course. I will recommend that all my instructors take it."
"This course was more closer to what I am currently teaching. From the course work, I am able to look back at my course and change/re-arrange aspects (such as quizzes and final projects) in order to get a better overall improvement from my students."
"I really enjoyed the section on assessments. As an instructor I am constantly revising my quizzes and tests to make them accurate, valid, and reliable for my students. This was helpful!"
"I was very pleased with this course and the information I gained from forum participation. "
"From the course work, I am able to look back at my course and change/re-arrange aspects (such as quizzes and final projects) in order to get a better overall improvement from my students."
"This course is useful to many instructors and provides a framework for thinking about course objectives and assessment possibilities. It helps focus attention on these matters when planning."
"As an educator for 30+ years I feel this course should be a requirement for EVERY teacher and director hired at a career college. It has also been a SUPER reminder for me and an eye-opener working with adult students."
"I enjoyed taking this course and will use the techniques learned through this course in my classroom effective immediately."
"Excellent course, it provided new tools and understanding for my presentation/testing"
"This was another great course, it helped me more than my own supervisor ever could put into words. Thank you so much."
"I loved this course. It helped me understand the importance of building appropriate tests for my students. I feel it was well structured and very informative. Thanks for the opportunity!"
"Beautifully written course that was valid to my area of interest and profession. Every component was carefully considered and built upon in preparation for the next unit. I am very impressed! "
"This course presented excellent information that I can use in my classroom today to help improve my teaching and assessment methods."
"Definitely a valuable learning tool. I am already considering how to implement different aspects of the course into my class. Thank you."
"I learned a lot of valuable information in this course! I'm looking forward to incorporating many of these ideas to enhance my instructional delivery. I also plan to assimilate many of the evaluative methods I learned in this course when evaluating my students and course materials. Thank you!"
"This class truly helped me become more aware of how I can better serve my students. There are so many great ideas that I can take from this and utilize every day in class. Really helped me to think outside the box."
"This has been an extremely beneficial review. I have learned information to make my tests more effective to measure the learning outcomes of my students."
"Areas that were helpful in this course were in how to present questions to students. The flow of the material is helpful as well in terms of progressing a student to higher critical thinking. I found this course comprehensive for use of learning styles and bloom's taxonomy."
"These courses are amazing. They help so much with teaching which in turn helps my students. Thank you all for the hard work that was necessary to product this course content."
"Well done! Very complete dissemination of this quantity of the material in a comprehensive format. I learned allot of what I'll hope to apply as well as tools I may not require, but have knowledge of if the need arises to use them. Thank you!"
"This course offers excellent information and recommendations that focus on challenges I faced last semester teaching a Speech Communication course. I intend to adapt my syllabus, Canvas modules, classroom instruction and grading methods to reflect what I learned."
"It is good to learn all types of instructional information that is very important to know when you are teaching in a class with different types of people that learn in different passes, and in different ways of learning and processing information. Thank you! "
"I gained a better understanding of the testing methods, types of test and reasons to use the various types of testing. "
"I was very impressed with this course. I have taken an number of online courses, and I thought this one was well above average. Nice job!"
"GREAT COURSE! Plan to complete many more after seeing how interesting this course was. Thanks for a great experience!"
"I took some solid lessons learned from this course, both professionally and personally. thank you. "
"Practical and relevant content. Excellent course."
"Very well structured and informative material."
"Training was very helpful and straight forward, easy to follow and understand. "
"The course was informative and engaging. I do not have any recommendations at this time."
"The course was very informative and helped me to see the Instructor / Student dynamic front a different point of view. I feel that I have learned valuable life skills that I will carry with me from now on."
"The ability to listen to the text being read to me while I followed alone was so valuable for me. It used more of my senses and aided greatly in my comprehension of the material. "
"This module was very useful, and it provided a refresher on many concepts I had learned before on teaching. The review of the different learning styles, assessment tools for testing and conducting a lecture were the most useful of the topics discussed. "
"I really enjoyed the course and the content. I have a better understanding of student learning ability and how to asses them."
"It was well organized, informative and easy to follow. I like that there was not a lot of superfluous information. Good job!"
"This course was very well developed. I used all tools and thought it was very engaging and had solid factual sound tools and knowledge for faculty to use. I have saved some of materials."
"I appreciated the clear outline of the course at the beginning and the different types of slides and visuals, such as some videos, some bullet points, some paragraphs. It was clearly presented and kept me attention. The information was not too bulky or overwhelming at any point. The course was well divided and also extremely helpful. I learned a lot that I can utilize in my job as an educator."
Course Structure
Course Format
- Can Start Anytime
- Self-paced (within course enrollment timeframe)
- 4 Hours of Activities
Completion Requirements
- Study Course Content
- Pass ALL Required Quizzes
Certificate of Completion
- 4 Hours of Continuing Education
- Available for download at the end of the course
Technology Requirements
- A Web browser with JavaScript and cookies enabled
- Adobe Flash Player
- Speakers or headphones
Course Objectives
Module 1: Teaching to Learning Styles
- Describe the significance of Learning Style.
- Identify several Learning Style models.
- Identify your own Learning Style.
- Use teaching strategies to address differences in learning style.
Module 2: Questioning as a Teaching Technique
- Determine why asking good questions is important.
- Ask different levels of questioning.
- Use the Socratic Method of Teaching.
- Encourage students to be self-motivated learners and researchers.
Module 3: Student Learning Assessment
- Describe the concept of assessment.
- Determine the connection between learning objectives and assessment.
- Recognize the types of assessments that are available.
- Choose the correct assessment for different types of learning.
Module 4: Creating Effective Assessments
- Recognize what types of tests are available.
- Describe the advantages/disadvantages of the various test types.
- Design good tests of each type.
Module 5: Community TV
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Lounge Group
This course provides you with a lifelong peer-to-peer learning opportunity through a specific Performance Group created within the Career College Lounge, a learning community of career college professionals. This allows you to learn and share with your peers at any time you want, even after you complete the course.
How to Enroll
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