AKEPT-Acad. Leadership- 2011 (ppt-pdf) - DrJJ - UiTM

Outcome Based Education 07/12/2011Peter Ewell’s argument In his December 1997 AAHE Bulletin article "Organizing forLearning," that the two common flaws in our change strategies that causedassessment NOT leading to learning improvement are:1. initiatives have been implemented without a deep understanding of what"collegiate learning" really means and which strategies are likely to promote it;2. initiatives have, for the most part, been attempted piecemeal within and acrossinstitutions.Most assessment efforts were implemented without a clear vision of what"higher" or "deeper" learning is and without an understanding of howassessment can promote such learning. Our piecemeal attempts stem partlyfrom a mechanistic, additive model of assessment, which needs to be replacedby a transformative assessment-asas-culture-change change model if we’re to make realprogress.Angelo, T. (1999). Doing Assessment As If Learning Matters Most. AAHE Bulletin. May 1999. Accessed Dec 2 nd ,2011. http://education.gsu.edu/ctl/outcomes/Doing%20Assessment%20As%20If%20Learning%20Matters%20Most.htm12/7/2011 Copyright DrJJ, ASERG, FSG, UiTM. March 2010 35"Although engineering students used memorized formulas successfully ly tosolve physics problems, there were 'widespread misconceptions' whenthey were required to provide 'coherent verbal descriptions of abstract aconcepts‘ inherent in the problems.After watching their teachers work 1,000 problems in class and solving another 3,000themselves outside class, 'after four years, engineering students showed negligibleimprovement in problem-solving skills.“Gardiner, L.F.. “Why We Must Change: The Research Evidence”, Thought and Action,14(1), pp.71-88. Available electronically at http://www2.nea.org/he/heta98/s98pg71.pdf.Physics Education Research-Validated Learning evidences since the 1980’sleading to Valid & Reliable Measuring Instruments such as the revolutionaryForce Concept Inventory (FCI) & the inclusion of Physics EducationResearch as a branch of physics & reported in Physical Review SpecialTopics—Physics Education Research12/7/2011 Copyright DrJJ, ASERG, FSG, UiTM. March 2010 36Copyright DR JJ, ASERG, UiTM, Shah Alam 18