ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION STRATEGIES
Running head: ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION 1
FOR MEASURING STUDENT LEARNING
C921 Assessment and Evaluation Strategies for Measuring Student Learning
Western Governors University
, ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION STRATEGIES 2
Assessment and Evaluation Strategies for Measuring Student Learning
Assessment theory, concept, or principle
Formative assessment. The formative assessment implemented for this specific course
module is an online discussion board, where learners will review the learning resources, and
reflect on the information provided in groups to answer 3 questions in paragraph format.
Learners will be tasked to provide a comparison and contrasting of the roles and responsibilities
of the community health nurse with the public health nurse, discuss common themes, findings, or
questions they had as a group, and if they can see themselves one day practicing as a community
or public health nurse or neither at all, and explain why. The theory chosen for the specific
design of this assessment was the constructivist theory.
Fernando & Marikar (2017) purport that the constructivist learning theory enables
learners to obtain knowledge actively and utilize previously learned ideas and concepts to build
upon and gain insight in order to construct new ideas. This activity will ensure learners will be
actively engaging with one another through group discussion regarding their individual findings
and feelings about working as either a community health or public health nurse. According to
Applefield, Huber & Moallem (2001), constructivist learning theory provides learners with an
opportunity to socially interact with one another by sharing, comparing, and debating their ideas.
These interactions accord a social and educational milieu of the learning process in which
learners are able to both refine their own thought processes and assist others with finding their
own meaning to the information. Utilizing the constructivist learning theory to design this
assessment will allow the nurse educator to provide support and guidance to all learners to
achieve a successive and more complex thought process, understanding, and level of independent
competence.
Running head: ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION 1
FOR MEASURING STUDENT LEARNING
C921 Assessment and Evaluation Strategies for Measuring Student Learning
Western Governors University
, ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION STRATEGIES 2
Assessment and Evaluation Strategies for Measuring Student Learning
Assessment theory, concept, or principle
Formative assessment. The formative assessment implemented for this specific course
module is an online discussion board, where learners will review the learning resources, and
reflect on the information provided in groups to answer 3 questions in paragraph format.
Learners will be tasked to provide a comparison and contrasting of the roles and responsibilities
of the community health nurse with the public health nurse, discuss common themes, findings, or
questions they had as a group, and if they can see themselves one day practicing as a community
or public health nurse or neither at all, and explain why. The theory chosen for the specific
design of this assessment was the constructivist theory.
Fernando & Marikar (2017) purport that the constructivist learning theory enables
learners to obtain knowledge actively and utilize previously learned ideas and concepts to build
upon and gain insight in order to construct new ideas. This activity will ensure learners will be
actively engaging with one another through group discussion regarding their individual findings
and feelings about working as either a community health or public health nurse. According to
Applefield, Huber & Moallem (2001), constructivist learning theory provides learners with an
opportunity to socially interact with one another by sharing, comparing, and debating their ideas.
These interactions accord a social and educational milieu of the learning process in which
learners are able to both refine their own thought processes and assist others with finding their
own meaning to the information. Utilizing the constructivist learning theory to design this
assessment will allow the nurse educator to provide support and guidance to all learners to
achieve a successive and more complex thought process, understanding, and level of independent
competence.
