Key Thoughts on Assessment
Visions
Procedures
Deep Culture
Rules
Surface culture
High & Low context
Context
Goals
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Goal Setting
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What is our
success vision for
the student?
What is the
students success
vision for
themselves?
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Goal Setting…
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What do they bring to the table?
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What do we have in terms of
resources to facilitate?
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Procedure
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Uniformity of
purpose vs.
uniformity of
procedure
Getting caught up
in procedure vs.
keeping focus on
the unit goals
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Multicultural Issues
Knowing your place
in the system
What recruiters are
looking for
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Multicultural Issues
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Establish ground
rules
How are we going
to exist together
Expect conflict
(what do we do
when it happens)
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Knowing your place in the system
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Understanding self
in a diverse
environment
context
How are you
assessed in the
larger system?
Guest/Burglar/
interloper
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Messages
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Ethnocentric inclusion – come and be
like us. (assimilation and acculturation)
Ethnorelative inclusion –lets join
together and lets evolve
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What recruiters are looking for
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Understanding our
students
Are recruiters
recruiting our students
Diversity angle?
Critical, teamwork,
presentations writing
skills
Staying on the agenda
Comm
skills
employable
experience
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Congruence between assessment and
learning!!!
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Assessment steps
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Claims
Evidence
Package
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Who is the package addressed to
Provide the data in many formats
( numbers, pictures, texts)
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Job Description
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What do I need to collect
that will be relevant to
stakeholders
Making data relevant to
detractors/stakeholders
What are our claims
What is our evidence
What is our data
Transforming data into
information that can be
useful to the stakeholders
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Understanding service delivery
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What I can deliver
by myself
What I can deliver
in partnership
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Multicultural Issues in
Evaluation
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When
Who
What
Where
How
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The Dynamics of Culture
Primarily
in Awareness
Surface Culture
Folk Culture
fine arts * literature
drama * classical music * popular music
folk dancing * games * cooking * dress
Folk Culture
Deep Culture
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notions of modesty * conception of beauty
ideals governing childraising * rules of descent
cosmology * relationship to animals
patterns of superior/subordinate relationships * definition of sin
courtship practices * conception of justice * incentives to work
notions of leadership * tempo of work * patterns of group decision making
conception of cleanliness * attitudes toward the dependent * theory of disease
approaches to problem solving * conception of status mobility * eye behavior
roles in relationship to status by age, sex, class, occupation, kinship, and so forth
conversational patterns in various social contexts * conception of past and future
definition of insanity * nature of friendship * ordering of time * conception of “self”
patterns of visual perception * preference for competition or cooperation * body language
social interaction rate * notions of adolescence
notions about logic and validity * patterns of handling emotions * facial expressions
arrangement of physical space ...AND MUCH, MUCH MORE ......
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Primarily
Out of Awareness
El Fín
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