GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Alternative Assessment Techniques in Science Teaching/443008

Course Title:	Alternative Assessment Techniques in Science Teaching
Credits	3	ECTS	8
Course Semester	1	Type of The Course	Elective

COURSE INFORMATION

-- (CATALOG CONTENT)

-- (TEXTBOOK)

-- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)

-- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- COURSE OBJECTIVES

-- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face

--WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week	1. Basic concepts in measurement and assessment process
2. Week	2. Scales and type of scales
3. Week	3. What is the classical and alternative assessment?
4. Week	4. Classical assessment techniques: Introduction advantages and limitations (open ended questions, short answer questions, T/F questions).
5. Week	5. Classical assessment techniques: Introduction advantages and limitations (matching type questions, multiple choice questions , fill in the blank qu
6. Week	6. Alternative assessment techniques: Introduction advantages and limitations (descriptive branched tree, structured grid)
7. Week	7. Alternative assessment techniques: Introduction advantages and limitations (mean solution tables, word relating, control list)
8. Week	8. Midterm exam
9. Week	9. Alternative assessment techniques: Introduction advantages and limitations(peer assessment, self- assessment)
10. Week	10. Alternative assessment techniques: Introduction advantages and limitations(Portfolio, project)
11. Week	11. Concept mapping: Their theoretical bases. Preparation of Novak type concept maps
12. Week	12. Concept maps scoring methods
13. Week	13. Concept maps: Indexing methods
14. Week	Fill in the bank type concept maps (fìll in the nodes and fill in the lines) gaps
15. Week
16. Week

-- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS

-- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

	Quantity	Total Weighting (%)
Midterm Exams	0	0
Assignment	9	40
Application	0	0
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0

Percent of In-term Studies		40
Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score		60

-- WORKLOAD

Activity	Total Number of Weeks	Duration (weekly hour)	Total Period Work Load
Weekly Theoretical Course Hours	14	3	42
Weekly Tutorial Hours			0
Reading Tasks	13	3	39
Searching in Internet and Library			0
Material Design and Implementation	4	8	32
Report Preparing	4	8	32
Preparing a Presentation	2	6	12
Presentation	3	6	18
Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam	1	12	12
Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam	1	12	12
Other (should be emphasized)			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			199
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.96
Course Credit (ECTS):			8

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

(Prof. Dr. Güler EKMEKCİ)

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

(https://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/guler)

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

(guler@gazi.edu.tr)

Gazi University