S2E9: Jay McTighe on how to 'backward design' educational nirvana
Rethinking Education
How Do We Assess Students' Learning Transfer?
How do you achieve this blend of disciplinary and transdisciplinary content? We start by identifying a small number of long term transfer goals. Then we identify the understandings that students will need to be able to transfer their learning within disciplines. A performance task involving application, some transfer and explanation, if done well, will give us evidence that will convict the student of understanding. The ability to remember things on a fact test does not ensure understanding or doesn't show that you can apply your learning. It simply says you know stuff.
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