Estimated Levels of Time and Energy Required for:
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| Faculty to prepare to use this CAT | Medium | 164-167 |
| Students to respond to the assessment | Low |
| Faculty to analyze the data collected | Low |
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| Description | "The Defining Features Matrix requires students to categorize concepts according to the presence (+) or absence (-) of important defining features, thereby providing data on their analytic reading and thinking skills."
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| Purpose | "The Defining Features Matrix is designed to assess students’ skills at categorizing important information according to a given set of critical defining features. It allows faculty to see quickly how well students can distinguish between apparently similar concepts, and it helps learners identify and make explicit the critical distinctions between such concepts." — Classroom Assessment Techniques, Angelo, TA and Cross, KP, 1993 |