Rachael's Straight-Forward Approach to Backward Design
My personal checklist for working with subject matter experts (SME) and new projects. To be effective this must be pursued in the order listed, though every effort can be made to capture content as it flows, to be placed later. The temptation for all designers and SMEs is to jump to the fun part--or whatever part we are most familiar with. Backward design requires you to just say no. Go slow in order to save time.
A "get it done" time-pressure can ensure you ultimately take longer, re-designing a project multiple times before you get it right. Backward design ensures speed, accuracy, and creativity by providing the structure to capture the right information at the right time. -R. Sweeten
A "get it done" time-pressure can ensure you ultimately take longer, re-designing a project multiple times before you get it right. Backward design ensures speed, accuracy, and creativity by providing the structure to capture the right information at the right time. -R. Sweeten
- Define objectives. Action verb statements lead clearly to assessment and measurable outcomes.
- Create Assessments. How will we know when a student has learned? How will we measure it?
- Plan. As with all business or educational communication, the audience, the message, and the results must determine the delivery format, timeline, and design.
- Design. Design activities, learning events, low-stakes assessments/knowledge checks, and assignments.
Assessment Tools
Assessment Grid .xlxs Spreadheet FormatThis table checklist helps to ensure alignment between assessments and lesson materials.
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Resources & LinksDave Merrill's First Principles of Instruction
Three Types of Assessment: Formative, Interim, Summative Formative
Summative
Assessment Ideas
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy, IACELT |