Digital Didactic Shorties: ‘Did you get it?’ - ‘Yes.’ - New possibilities for formative learning assessments

The ‘Digital Didactic Shorties’ event series offers informative input in short formats. The aim is to provide you as a lecturer with new ideas for (digitally supported) teaching.

In many conversations, teachers tell us that they repeatedly ask students whether they have understood and confirm that they have. But we are not sure about it. This seminar provides a practical introduction to the didactic background of ‘understanding’ and our teaching planning. We will look at the connection between the teaching activity and the learning process of the students. We clarify what many teachers subsume under ‘understanding’ and how this can be formulated more clearly using Bloom's taxonomy of learning objectives.

You will be introduced to the following alternative suggestions:

• Analogue methods: Handout questions, voting cards through peer instruction, marble group, red-yellow card; and
• Digital platforms and methods: peer instruction through mentimeter, queries through Mentimeter.com, and
• simple questioning techniques that encourage students to verbalise their own thoughts so that they can answer verbally or in writing.

All participants are then able to use at least two methods from the seminar immediately with students in order to avoid questions such as ‘Did you understand’ and thus use more suitable methods for checking learning objectives.

Teachers at the University of Bayreuth are welcome to hold further discussions with the ZHL in order to discuss teaching design with the concepts, methods and platforms presented in greater depth. Separate work units will be allocated for this purpose.