| Assessment type | Formative and summative |
|---|---|
| Assessment method/tool | Ditch the numbers |
| Operationalisation (what is being assessed and why, how to conduct it) | We will use a closed Facebook group to keep this online learning journal. If you already have one, use it. As it is important to include everyone, make sure every student is able to post – do they have a Facebook account? If not, do they have the possibility to use another account to participate in this journal? Do they have a computer? Do they have internet? Does the education institution provide this? These conditions seem to be quite basic, but reality shows that sometimes these are conditions that are not met yet for everyone. It is also required to obtain a written permission from the students to use their photos. The goal of this online “journal” is to create an online debate forum linked with the course and follow the issues and discussions raised, allowing the sharing of perspectives, questions, resources, doubts, ideas, feelings about a topic, obstacles, learning experiences, etc. In this way, the teacher/trainer can use it to check what are the topics that need reinforcement, what misconceptions there might be, what is the level of understanding of students on a specific topic, who is in need of support, and also to provide that support, resources, guidance and even answers. In this case, the journal will also be used as an additional element to evaluate a student, based on the understanding and interest expressed both in the posts and comments this student publishes. In this sense, the list of rules starts here: 1. Each student has to publish at least twice during the Entrepreneurship course and has to comment the posts with their own opinion for at least five other colleagues’/trainer’s posts. 2. RESPECT is golden. 3. Appropriate language is a must, and no abuse will be tolerated. 4. Plagiarism is not acceptable. 5. No politic, religious or sexual content posts will be accepted. 6. Constructive feedback is encouraged – even when one has a different view. 7. Don’t post copyrighted images – unsplash.com is a good source for free images, for instance. The teacher/trainer will have to monitor posts and comments and provide feedback. Start by creating the blog/Facebook group or other online supported journal and invite all students to join. This should be done as soon as possible once you have the workshop participants confirmed. This should be a requirement for participants to do the course. Initiate the journal by posting about the learning outcomes set for the course/class. You can also create a survey where each of the learning outcomes is presented and students have to rate them according to what they feel they already know or are able to do. In this way, you will be able to discover the characteristics of the trainees you will have in the class and this will give you an indication on what to focus, or on which resources to choose from the set of resources available, and also what are the learning outcomes that perhaps don’t require such a big effort because students say they are already familiar/proficient. Of course, for the teacher to use this diagnosis tool, the sooner this is done after the registration of students, the better! The day before the course starts, publish this question: “Do you think you are an entrepreneurial teacher/trainer? Why?” After you have worked the topic of what an entrepreneurial teacher/trainer is, go back to this post and its comments and discuss it. Other posts can be about what was the students’ approach to the exercises presented in the workshop or what they liked or disliked, what went well and what could be improved. |
| Remarks | If we want to use this tool to evaluate the students, this assessment method can count for 10% of the final grade. We can use the following criteria:
1. The student complies with the minimum number of posts and comments (4%) 2. The relevance of the student’s posts and comments (4%) 3. The student complies with the rules (2%) |