creative assessment? not for the general requirement courses...the few highlights that have stayed with me are from Spanish for bilingual native speakers -perhaps b/c Miriam was on her way to a PhD program, she was innovative in her assessment by assigning films that had to be reviewed (assessed our grammar/syntax skills) and we had to lead a discussion in spanish for our peers. One of my latin american/latino studies professors made us "work" quite differently by attending community-oriented events, outside speaker engagements, volunteering our time at a community-based org./center from which we wrote about in relation to the concept areas we we're covering. Some folks def. complained, b/c it wasn't as easy as just taking a test. You could of gotten away w/o reading and writing, but the time commitment for these "outside" assignments were real.
Bringing it back to that self-consciousness space about how our skills/attitudes/perspectives/and or behavior had changed from the inception of our class participation to its' ending was really rewarding and why not -most inspiring- some of my classmates had some real transformational experiences that really shifted the perceived ways we thought of interaction about some of the high-philosophizing subject matters we covered.
I'm really fascinated by this indicator of student self-assessment being facilitated from the start by encouraging involvement in the learning process. How to do this ?
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