I want
my students to be able to name all fifty US states in alphabetical order. I
would use the information processing theory for my students to reach this goal.
I would use both chunking and mnemonics and other strategies of encoding the
material in to long term storage. I would teach the catchy song “50 Nifty United States” and break it into
sections (chunking) for students to master one part to another. Students have
prior knowledge of the alphabet and familiar with what states are in the US. By
allowing the students to place the new information that connects to old
information, learning the states in alphabetically order will be encoded into
long term memory. After we have finished the last state, the students will be
given a formative test to be able to produce all fifty states in alphabetical order. The students will have a
rubric. Spelling does not count, but capitalization does. This assessment would
also be summative because it is the final assessment to judge how well the
students learned the material entirely and correctly.
I think the IP approach makes sense with your learning goal, but why do you think it's the best choice?
ReplyDeleteI like how you're chunking and connecting to prior knowledge. Some students may not have familiarity with the states, though, so you may want to keep that in mind. Another students' post had a nice idea to start with Indiana, since they are all most familiar with that state, and build from there.
I'm unclear why you chose your particular assessment as the best, most aligned, choice for your learning goal and method of instruction. What sort of formative test would they be given? Do you think a performance assessment (asking each student to come up and state them for you) would be a better choice, given your learning goal? It might also align with IP a bit better if you work on methods of retrieval, and since it requires them to recall without the aid of a written test (it's assessing whether the knowledge is 'in there', in their LTM). Be able to think about these things for the final....