Assessment in the Affective Domain PDF

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MINDANAO ASSESSMENT in the AFFECTIVE DOMAIN GROUP 3  The affective domain is part of a system that was published in 1965 for identifying, understanding, and addressing how people learn. The affective domain describes learning objectives that empha...

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MINDANAO ASSESSMENT in the AFFECTIVE DOMAIN GROUP 3  The affective domain is part of a system that was published in 1965 for identifying, understanding, and addressing how people learn. The affective domain describes learning objectives that emphasize a feeling, tone, an emotion, or a degree of acceptance or rejection. 2  Kratwohl’s Taxonomy of Affective Domain (1964) The taxonomy in the affective domain contains a large number of objectives in the literature expressed as interests, attitude, appreciations, values, and emotional sets or biases. (Krathwohleta1 1964). RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 3  Thedescriptions of each step in the taxonomy culled from Kratwohl’s Taxonomy of Affective Domain (1964) are given as follows: RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 4  LEVEL DEFINITION Receiving Being aware of or attending to something in the environment Responding Showing some new behaviors as a result of experience RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 5  LEVEL DEFINITION Valuing Showing some definite involvement and commitment Organization Integrating a new value into one’s general set of values, giving it some ranking among one’s general priorities RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 6  LEVEL DEFINITION Characterization Acting consistently with the new value RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 7  BEHAVIORAL WORDS RECEIVING  RESPONDING accept complete attend comply develop cooperate discuss recognize examine obey respond RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 8  BEHAVIORAL WORDS  VALUING ORGANIZATION defend display devote order pursue organize systematize seek RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 9  BEHAVIORAL WORDS  CHARACTERIZATION internalize verify RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 10 Affective topics in educational literature include attitudes, motivation, communication styles, classroom management styles, learning styles, use of technology in the classroom and nonverbal communication, interests, predisposition, and self- efficacy. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 11 However, it is important to realize that by tapping the potentials of the affective domain in enhancing learning, we increase the likelihood of real and authentic learning among our students. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 12  Affective Learning Competencies  Affective desired learning competencies are often stated in the form of instructional objectives. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 13 Then, what are instructional objectives? RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 14  Instructional objectives are specific, measurable, short- term, observable student behaviors.  Objectives are the foundation upon which you can build lessons and assessments.  Think of objectives as tools you use to make sure you reach your goals.  Ensure that learning is focused clearly enough that both students and teacher know what is going on, and so learning can be objectively measured. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 15  LEVEL DEFINITION EXAMPLE to differentiate  Awareness to accept Receiving  willingness to to listen (for) hear/receive to respond to  Active participation of to comply with students to follow Responding  attends and to command reacts on to volunteer phenomenon to acclaim  willingness to respond RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 16  LEVEL DEFINITION EXAMPLE  worth or value a to relinquish person attaches to subsidize Valuing to certain objects, phenomenon or to support behavior to debate  organizes values into priorities to discuss  emphasis is on to theorize Organization comparing, to formulate relating, and to balance synthesizing to examine values RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 17  LEVEL DEFINITION EXAMPLE  act consistently to revise in accordance to require with to manage internalized to resolve values Shows self- Characterization  concerned with reliance when the student's working general patterns independently. of adjustment Cooperates in (personal, group activities social, (displays emotional) teamwork). RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 18  AFFECTIVE FOCAL CONCEPTS ATTITUDES – are defined as a mental predisposition to act that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or disfavor. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 19  4 components of attitudes A. COGNITIONS – are our beliefs, theories, expectancies, cause-and-effect beliefs, and perceptions relative to the focal object. B. AFFECT – refers to our feeling with respect to the focal object such as fear, liking, or anger. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 20  4 components of attitudes C. BEHAVIORAL INTENTIONS – are our goals, aspirations, and our expected responses to the attitude object. D. EVALUATION – often considered the central component of attitude. Consist of the imputation of some degree of goodness or badness to an attitude object. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 21 WHY STUDY ATTITUDES?  Obviously, attitudes can influence the way we act and think in the social communities we belong. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 22 MOTIVATION  is a reason to set or reasons for engaging in a particular behavior, especially human behavior. The reason may include basic needs or an object, goal, state of being, or ideal that is desirable. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 23  Assessment tools in the affective domain SELF-REPORT – is the most common measurement tool. It essentially requires an individual to provide an account of his/her attitude or feelings toward a concept or idea of people. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 24 SELF-REPORT RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 25  Assessment tools in the affective domain RATING SCALES – is a close-ended survey question used to represent respondent feedback in a comparative form for specific particular features/products services.  it is one of the most established question types for online and offline surveys where survey respondents are expected to rate an attribute or feature. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 26  The rating scale is a variant of the popular multiple choice question, which is widely used to gather the information that provides relative information about a specific topic. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 27  ADVANTAGES OF RATING SCALES 1. rating scales help students understand the learning target/outcomes and to focus students’ attention on performance. 2. completed rating scale gives specified feedback to students as far as their strengths and weaknesses with respect to the targets to which they are measured. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 28  ADVANTAGES OF RATING SCALES 3. Students not only learn the standards but also may internalize the set of standards. 4. Ratings help to show each students’ growth and progress. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 29 RATING SCALES RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 30 RATING SCALES NUMERICAL RATING SCALE RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 31  Assessment tools in the affective domain SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL SCALES – tries to assess an individual’s reaction to specific words, ideas, or concepts in terms of ratings on bipolar scales defined with contrasting adjectives at each end. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 32  Three Basic Dimensions 1. EVALUATION – represents the goodness or badness of a concept GOOD – BAD 2. POTENCY – reflects the strength or intensity of the concept POWERFUL – POWERLESS 3. ACTIVITY – indicates the level of energy or dynamism associated with the concept FAST – SLOW RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 33 SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL SCALES RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 34  Assessment tools in the affective domain THURSTONE SCALE (Louis Leon Thurstone) – Thurstone is considered the father of attitude measurement. He developed an attitude continuum to determine the position of favorability on the issue. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 35  it is used to assess the attitude of respondents regarding social phenomena.  where to use Thurstone scale: to measure your respondents attitudes on a particular issue. Thurstone scale produces quantifiable measures of the strength of your respondents opinions. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 36  Advantages and disadvantages ADVANTAGES  easy to administer  requires minimum instruction DISADVANTAGES  time consuming  expensive to construct  not as much diagnostic value as likert scale and values depend on the attitude of the original judges. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 37 RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 38  Assessment tools in the affective domain LIKERT SCALE (Rensis Likert) – requires that individuals tick on a box to report whether they “strongly agree”, “agree”, “undecided”, “disagree”, or “strongly disagree”. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 39 designed to determine the opinion or attitude of a subject and contains a number of declarative statements with a scale after each statement. Usually: value of 1 given to negative response value of 5 given to positive response RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 40  Advantages and disadvantages ADVANTAGES  easy to construct  considered as more reliable and valid to measure psychological variable  less time consuming DISADVANTAGES  respondents may feel forced to answer question  difficulty justifying the selection of the number of categories  may provide misleading data RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 41 LIKERT SCALE RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 42 RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 43  Assessment tools in the affective domain CHECKLIST – consist of simple items that the student or teachers mark as “absent” or “present”. Simple tool that lists tasks, items, or steps that need to be completed. It helps keep track of progress and ensures nothing is forgotten. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 44 CHECKLIST is an assessment tool that list the specific criteria for skills, behavior, or attitudes that participants should demonstrate to show successful learning from the training. RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 45 RDE MIDYEAR IN-HOUSE REVIEW 46