Checks for Understanding

Checks for Understanding

Checks for Understanding

Summative Assessments:

• Questions asked at the end of the lesson
• Designed to measure what students have learned and mastered over a period of instruction.

• Typically graded.
• For example, the written test at the end of a WFR course.

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Formative Assessments:

• Questions asked during the lesson
• Designed to measure the level of student understanding in the moment
• Used by the instructor to determine the next step in the learning process
• AKA: Checks for Understanding

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Self Report:

• "Do you understand?" "Got that?" "Right?"

Check for Understanding:

• "What do you understand?"

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Cold Calling

• Call on more than one student

• When you have an answer, put your hand on your head

• "Call a friend" "Ask the audience"

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All Student Response Systems

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Which of the following patients receive a Head to Toe exam?

The mountain biker who you watch hit a tree going really fast

Your friend, who after a long day of backpacking, complains of a bad headache and nausea

The unresponsive patient you find lying on the side of the trail

The 12 year old who is hiking in front of you and rolls their anke and sits down

All of the above

None of the above

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A hiker who hits their head on a tree branch and experiences a brief loss of responsiveness needs to be evacuated.

Agree

Disagree

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These questions are NOT Self-Reports

Thumb-o-meter

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Hinge Questions

• Students cannot arrive at the correct answer for the wrong reason
• Diagnostic not Discussion questions
• Associated with a Threshold Concept:
• student must understand it before the rest of the lesson makes sense

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Hinge Questions

• How is shock different than Acute Stress Response?
• What organ is Level of Responsiveness assessing?
• Identify the four main mechanisms of heat loss.
• Other examples?

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Exit Tickets

Stop and Jot

Parking Lot

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Scenarios and Student Practice

• Observe your students

• Establish Success Points

• Common Errors

• Coach each student

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