90 Minute Seminar

Educational Programs, Workshops, Seminars, New Idea Session, and Small Group Discussions

A-001 - “Assessment for Learning” Practices to Enhance Student Learning and Well-being

Presenter(s)

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  Aubrie Swan Sein, PhD, Ed.M.

  Columbia University College of Dental Medicine
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  Laureen Zubiaurre Bitzer, D.MD, M.S., PhD

  Columbia University College of Dental Medicine
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  Shubha Dathatri, PhD, Ed.M.

  Columbia University College of Dental Medicine

You will learn about assessment for learning educational research and how Columbia University College of Dental Medicine and College of Physicians and Surgeons have collaborated to make major evidence-based revisions to its assessment system in order to better drive student learning and wellness and to enhance the learning environment. Changes include adopting preclinical pass/fail grading structures, implementing unproctored, off-site, time-flexible course exams to help students to focus on their professional identity formation. We also updated our first semester assessments structure to include scheduling exams during “synthesis and assessment weeks,” allowing students to retake exams until mastery is met, and creating collaborative post-exam review sessions.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain evidence-based reasoning and strategies for designing a system of assessment that enhances long-term learning, student collaboration, well-being, professional-identity formation and educational climate.
• Describe some of the reasons why a pass/fail, unproctored, off-site and time-flexible assessment system can enhance student learning.
• Create action plans, including evidence to document, for revising assessment systems.