Effective Assessment
for Bayes Learning

Day 3

What Assessment Tools Are You Using?

  • Anything related to statistics and/or Bayesian statistics

  • It can be your plans

  • Let’s hear from 2-3 of you!

Analyses of Assessments

Small Group Discussion

Format and Length

  • About 30 minutes

  • 3-4 small groups, each led by one Instructor/TA

  • Random assignment; get to know people from a different discipline!

  • Assign a note-taker; if okay, please share notes with us afterwards

  • Assign a reporter for large group sharing (3 minutes per group)

  • Feel free to use our prepared questions and feel free to come up with your own

Discussion Questions

  1. The American Statistician paper by Mine and Monika includes the following recommendations for assessments of a Bayesian course. What do you think of them?

    • Include a data analysis portion in a homework assignment and in an exam
    • Include a course project component in course assessments
    • Include formative assessments such as quizzes (low to no-grade contribution) to get students to do drill and practice exercises
    • Be creative with assessment tools
    • In addition to lectures, use real data in every assessment when possible

Discussion Questions

  1. What assessment tool(s) you have found to be most effective. Why and what advice do you have for someone to give it a try?

  2. What assessment tool(s) you have found to be least effective. Why and do you have solutions to improve it/them?

  3. What is the one challenge you would like to get help with from BATS bootcamp?

Large Group Sharing

Format and Length

  • About 25 minutes

  • We will record this portion for sharing later. Okay?

  • Each group reports back for 3 minutes

  • Open discussion for remaining time