Estimated Levels of Time and Energy Required for:
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| Faculty to prepare to use this CAT | Medium | 290-294 |
| Students to respond to the assessment | Low |
| Faculty to analyze the data collected | Low to Medium |
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| Description | "Goal Ranking and Matching is a simple procedure that many faculty have adapted to use in the first or second day of class. It takes only a few minutes for students to list a few learning goals they hope to achieve through the course and to rank the relative importance of these goals. If time and interest allow, students can also estimate the relative difficulty of achieving their learning goals. The instructor then collects student lists and matches them against his or her own course goals."
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| Purpose | "The primary purpose of Goal Ranking and Matching is to assess the “degree of fit” (1) between students’ personal learning goals and teachers’ course-specific instructional goals and (2) between teachers’ and students’ rankings of the relative importance and difficulty of the goals. This CAT also enables teachers to create shared class goals. Faculty can use the information this technique provides to increase student motivation by helping students make connections between their personal goals and course goals, and – where appropriate – by incorporating student goals into the syllabus. Finally, this technique helps students learn to identify and clarify their own learning goals – an important lifelong learning skill." — Classroom Assessment Techniques, Angelo, TA and Cross, KP, 1993 |