Assessment

=Assessment=

Thorndike, in regards to Connectionism and assessing, outlined three main ideas that would benefit from his theory. First, if a student experiences a negative effect from something being taught, the retention is bound to be minimal. A student must be motivated in some capacity to be successful. Secondly, information that was taught most recently will be the information that is most readily available for the individual to demonstrate. For example, a unit on nature begins off in September with butterflies, and concludes in October with snails. It is most likely the information on snails that the student retained the most. Assessment should span the entire unit, but perhaps more of the subjective questions (short answer, essays) should be geared towards snails. Lastly, repetition aids comprehension. A student who is able to devote time to repetition exercises will most likely retain the information. Before assessing, a small review may rgeatly benefit the students. Repetition typically means more than once, and even a short review on butterflies will conjure up the concepts and ideas taught months back.

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