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Calendar
Wednesday, Sept. 25
What: Ten-year Anniversary Celebration
What: Ten-year Anniversary Celebration
When: 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Where: Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center
Cost: Free
What: International Peace and Conflict Studies Film Festival
When: Spencer Museum of Art auditorium
Where: 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
About: The Center of Latin American & Caribbean Studies presents "Machuca" (2004). The film runs for 121 minutes.
Thursday, Sept. 26
What: Facing Genocide and its Aftermath:
"Cartographies of the Holocaust and Genocide"
When: 3.30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Hall Center, Seminar Room
About: Alberto Giordano, from Texas State University at San Marcos, will speak at a seminar open to faculty, staff and graduate students
What: KU Common Book: An evening with author Timothy Egan
When: 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Where: Lied Center
Friday, Sept. 27
About: In a free event, Timothy Egan, author of the 2013-14 KU Common Book will speak about his experience writing "The Worst Hard Time," as well as take questions from the audience. A book signing will follow the event.
What: Reflecting Forward: Jazz Artists through Oral History
Oral history
When: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Where: Watson Library, Room 455
About: Coffee and conversation with Maxine Gordon. Part of American Studies' celebration of 60 years at the University.
**What:** The Museum Collection Across the Curriculum: Lives of Buddhist Artifacts
**When:** Noon to 1 p.m.
**Where:** Spencer Museum of Art
**About:** In this free event, religious studies professor Daniel Stevenson discusses the ways in which Buddhist images and objects found their way into the lives of Buddhist clergy and institutions, followers of Buddhism and vernacular culture.
Saturday, Sept. 28
What: African Beading
When: All day
Where: Spencer Museum of Art
About: Beadwork activities representing
African and Native American cultures
What: Fables on Global Warming
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Lied Center of Performing Arts
About: Musical art performance discussing sustainability through traditional animal fables.
EDUCATION
New testing methods embrace student diversity
KATIE MCBRIDE
kmcbride@kansan.com
Teachers have started to move away from multiple choice exams and towards alternative testing methods, said Bruce Frey, University associate professor in psychology and research in education and the author of "Modern Classroom Assessment." In the past, most tests were given in traditional paper-and-pencil formats, but many other methods have started to become more popular among teachers.
Frey said one reason for this shift is that multiple choice tests don't show how students can apply classroom knowledge to an actual life situation.
"So many of the ways that we test and assess students in class are very artificial, and are things that we wouldn't see outside of a classroom," Frey said. "In real life, when people are evaluated on their skills or performance, it's not going to be on a multiple choice test."
This issue can be addressed with "authentic assessments", which is one alternative method of testing discussed in Frey's book. While
there are many different definitions of authentic assessments. Frey said that they essentially test the student's skills and abilities past basic classroom knowledge.
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Bruce Frey
that reflects their ability level.
Frey said the problem with this new test strategy is that it tends to be very subjective and requires the teacher to put a lot of thought into fairly testing every individual student. In addition, it also creates a challenge for the teacher — instructors must figure out how to best assign point values to non-traditional testing measures.
Because of this, a simple multiple choice test with points awarded for each correctly answered question is often times chosen over performance-based assessments in order to objectively assign a grade for
each student. While the students have less of a chance to show their personal skills and abilities, multiple choice tests are optimal for testing a student's basic knowledge and grasp of a subject, said Frey.
Another concept that Frey covers in his book is the "formative assessment." With this type of assessment, students are continually evaluated on their knowledge level and what areas they do and do not understand. This evaluation might come in the form of quizzes, discussions or the student personally evaluating what they understand. While these checks may not always be valued toward the student's final grade in the class, they allow both the teacher and the student to see what concepts need to be clarified.
"This idea of frequently giving meaningful feedback during the time that learning is forming is well-established as effective in increasing learning and test performance," Frey said. "It's the only type of assessment that's been shown to increase learning."
Another one of the modern assessment techniques that Frey writes about in his book is the "universal test design," which is the
idea to design assessments in a way that allows each individual student to complete them and perform well, despite diversity.
"The ways we teach and assess should be useful and valuable for every single student, no matter if they have a disability, regardless of what culture they come from, or what their characteristics are." Frey
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"In real life, when people are evaluated on their skills or performance, it's not going to be on a multiple choice test."
BRUCE FREY
University associate professor
said.
Frey adds that as teachers find more ways to create these types of universal assessments, more and more students can complete them without being treated differently from any other student.
However, instructors don't need to choose between traditional testing methods and newer strategies. Lauren Dollar, a junior from Nixa, Mo., said that a balance must exist between completing hands-on, skill-based tasks and testing student understanding with a traditional, paper-and-pencil method.
VICES
"There's no way to get around multiple choice tests in order to test the students' knowledge on the facts and theories that they learned about," Dollar said. "As a teacher, in order to see where the student is and how they're progressing, you need a comparison to see if they're progressing from where they were at the beginning."
Dollar recently applied to the School of Education and found that through school observations, she could make strong connections between what she read about in her textbooks and how to realistically apply that knowledge when she's interacting with students.
"You have to have the real-world experience, and you also have to come back to the classroom and learn why it works and how it works." Dollar said.
Study says smarter kids use drugs, alcohol more often
— Edited by Kayla Overbey
ylee@kansan.com
From those who nurse hangovers well into the next day to those who have a glass of wine with dinner, students vary widely in their drinking and drug habits.
A new research study published in "Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research" sheds some new light on the matter and found that it is the more intelligent students who are trying alcohol and drugs at an earlier age and using them more frequently.
"I had a couple friends in high school who never had to study for anything, so they had all this extra time on their hands and chose to do drugs or drink instead of actually preparing for classes." Ryerson said.
"Part of intelligence is the curiosity component and experimentation," said Paula Fite, assistant professor of clinical child psychology.
Intelligent students may start experimenting with drugs and alcohol because they are not challenged by their environment, said sophomore Jordan Ryerson from Blue Springs, Mo.
Smarter kids may be better equipped to get their hands on drugs and alcohol.
Fite said that kids with higher verbal skills at younger ages are associated with higher
socioeconomic status.
"So they have more money to buy the substances. So it might not be actual ability, but the environmental factors that also play into that, like money." Fite said.
"You want to be careful when you say things like 'more frequently' because it's not to a point of addiction," Fite said. "It's less impulsive using and more likely planned. Part of it is, [they] are probably better at making decisions."
And even though more intelligent students may start drinking at an earlier age, the study found they are not more prone to addiction.
The research came as a surprise to Mitchell Pruett, a junior from Salina in the honors program.
"I feel like most college students drink, but it seems a smaller percentage of honors students drink than the general population actually." Pruett said.
In fact, the realities at the University may not reflect the research findings.
"If we are looking at college students, we are looking at a relatively bright population," Fite said. "We are not looking at the whole spectrum of abilities so I think that it's probably hard to see too many differences and changes in already a pretty homogenous group."
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