EDU 653: Assessment Strategies to Improve Adult Learning

Overview

EDU 653 is designed to provide you, the educator of adults, with the necessary knowledge and skills to develop valid, reliable, and fair evaluation plans, tests, and assessments for adult education and organizational learning. This course is intended for adult educators who will develop and implement adult education programs; but many of the principles and practices can also be applied to workplace performance assessment and program evaluation.

During this course, you will construct and write a complete evaluation plan. As you develop your plan, you will learn to write clear, concise, and complete learning objectives and employ them in your assessments. You will also design valid, reliable, and fair tests and scoring rubrics as components of your evaluation plan.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the principles of adult education that apply to assessment of learning outcomes.
• For any learning outcome, write a clear, concise, and complete instructional objective that describes the observable behavior related to the outcome.
• Develop appropriate formative and summative assessments to achieve learning objectives.
• Design an evaluation plan based on instructional goals and learning objectives that contains appropriate performance evaluation instruments and assessment procedures, including appropriate testing instruments and scoring rubrics.
• Evaluate assessment programs and tests for validity, reliability, and fairness.
• Evaluate and report assessment results in a form that will motivate and educate adult learners, and provide information to improve assessment policies and practices in an organization.
• Evaluate your skills and abilities related to adult assessment principles and practices, and express a leadership role in promoting good adult assessment policies and practices in an institution.

Required Texts
EDU 653 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore