Natalie Schelling and Matthew Stuve

Festival note: This presentation is a summary of a recent academic conference presentation:

Schelling, N. & Stuve, M. (2020). The Points Don’t Matter: Reshaping Students’ Misconceptions about Formative Assessment.  Presented at the IUPUI Assessment Institute.  https://assessmentinstitute.iupui.edu. Oct. 28.

Abstract:

For the NCLB generation of college students, “assessment” means a test and its judgements of them. The challenge is to reshape their conceptions of assessment as outcome driven to instead promote a positive process orientation of assessment. Formative assessment emphasizes assessment for learning, not of learning. This presentation introduces formative assessment theories and practices and explores them in the context of an iterative disposition assessment used in a teacher education program. With support and reorientation to the process of assessment, students begin to demonstrate the intrinsic, self-regulated learning strategies indicative of formative assessment.

About the presenters:

Dr. Natalie Schelling is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, Indiana University Kokomo. Her teaching and research areas include: Learning theory, motivation theory, human development, classroom assessment

Dr. Matthew Stuve is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, Ball State University. His teaching and research areas include: Learning theory, motivation theory, classroom assessment