The difference between evaluation and assessment:
1. Evaluation
2. Assessment
Evaluating your teaching can help you to figure out what happened in a class session. Included below are techniques for dealing with issues that may arise.
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Be aware of how your own knowledge can effect your teaching:
Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Level 4 |
Unconscious Incompetence | Conscious Incompetence | Conscious Competence | Unconscious Competence |
You don't have any idea what it means to be a great instructor or why you should care about improving your skills in this area. | You are aware enough to know that other people are great instructors and that you are not. | You've learned some skills and put them into practice. However. you must still pay lots of attention to your delivery, and you only have spotty application of instruction skills. Most people will fall into this category. | You have made a habit of practicing a wide range of instruction skills and do so without having to think about them. |
From Anne Grodzins Lipow article, "Why Training Doesn't Stick: Who is to Blame?," in Library Trends 38.1 (Summer 1989): 62-72.
The information in this guide is based on information in a series of presentations and documents associated with an Information Literacy Workshop presented by the ULS Information Literacy and Assessment Working Group.