Multiple intelligences and learning styles

Assessment type	Formative / Summative
Assessment method/tool	Writing
Operationalisation (what is being assessed and why, how to conduct it)	This assessment method is made for exercise 2 - Show your intelligence targeting verbal-linguistic learners. This assessment tool covers the learning outcome Develop alternative assessment tools and strategies for STEM learning outcomes: Areas of application for this method are numerous just as the number of school subjects it can be applied in. Some of the possibilities are: comment on a recent event or take an important event from the history, write a speech for a specific occasion, describe the working principle of a machine, give your opinion on a social matter, describe development of a product… - the ones in bold being best suited for STEM area. Suggestions on how to prepare an Essay Assessment: Select the course objectives that can be assessed through an Essay Request to focus on hypothetical data, solve sample problems, compare concepts, etc., Phrase the questions in a clear way in order to allow the trainee to identify what is expected from his/her reply, Indicate the value of the question and the time suggested for answering it, Prevent the use of questions involving long answers Suggestions on how to assess Essay responses: Previously decide on which factors will be considered in evaluating the responses through a marking scheme, Value only the significant and relevant aspects of the responses, Application of a uniform standard to all papers, Hide the identity of the trainee to avoid the “halo effect”, Grade one question at a time for all papers to help minimizing the halo effect, using the marking scheme.
Remarks	When using writing as an assessment method and assigning essays, one has to bear in mind the purpose of the assignment and what one wants to achieve/what kind of feedback one is looking for. Accordingly, writing can be used both in a formative and summative way, always taking into consideration the (dis)advantages of the method. Another important issue with essay writing is choosing the right type of essay. Two most typically used in everyday education are Summary of a text or an article and Illustration or examples of principles. Advantage/Disadvantage Essay and Causes or Effects Essay are a bit more complicated.

Useful LINKS/ATTACHMENTS:

http://archive.wceruw.org/cl1/flag/cat/interviews/interviews1.htm

https://www.edutopia.org/article/7-smart-fast-ways-do-formative-assessment