What is evidence of learning?
Introduction
In education, teachers make the greatest efforts to cover a broad content that fits the professional needs that our students may have in the future, however there is no guarantee that all the content taught is being assimilated and learned in a meaningful way by our students until we do not perform tests or tests that give us an idea of how much they are assimilating what we teach to obtain a significant and quality learning.
To find and apply a tool to diagnose whether our students are learning the content they are taught is what we know as evidence of learning, the basic objective of the evidence of learning is to explore in the student to realize what is really happening inside him as a result of what he learns, it is also important that the evidence of learning to get the student's interest that is taking to learn the content that we are teaching in a particular subject.
What is evidence of learning?
An evidence is a proof that certifies the veracity of something, in the case of learning there must also be some evidence that certifies that learning is taking place correctly, that is why we can define the evidence of learning as that set of tests that can give evidence about the learning process through clear and concise results, with the evidence of learning we as teachers should be able to confirm with such evidence (evidence) that through the teaching-learning process the student is learning correctly.
Conclusion
As many educational tools, learning evidences are very wide and varied, and their application will depend on the objective pursued, however within this variation we can define two types of learning evidences, direct and indirect.
In the case of being able to detect a direct learning evidence is because they are visible to us, apart from the fact that the objective pursued is very clear there apart from the fact that it is obtained under a tangible vision.
In the case of evidence of indirect learning, we realize that we are in the presence of this type of evidence of learning because somehow there is the probability that the student is assimilating the learning but there is no clarity to know how the student is learning and how much is being learned.
Finally, it is important that we learn to use the evidence of learning as a valuable tool for identification in the learning of our students.
You are right, many times as teachers we must give all of us so that students can understand and learn in the best possible way, but it is also true that some tests or tests are not necessarily reliable to measure that knowledge. I usually apply several methods one that has worked for me is to give the class and I have specific movies where they help to better understand the given topic, so I ask questions that are related to the topic and send to see a movie to answer the question.
Greetings friend @lanzjoseg. That is what we should always pursue as teachers that we are the main objectives is to seek that the student understands what we are explaining, apply various methods or strategies where the student can identify with the knowledge we want to impart, it seems to me super that method you use. Greetings and thank you for your contribution.
hello @sandracarrascal,
is a very interesting topic because not all people learn the same, nor have the ability to assimilate things equally, in China they are trying to implement AI in education in order to teach in a more effective way, with the use of technology they can evaluate how a person learns and what is the best way to teach it, no doubt that in the coming years technology will be used as a tool in schools to ensure a better education for all people.
Hello friend @trabajosdelsiglo. Exactly not all people have the same ability to understand, we have to know how to find the way to understand the subject to be treated, the use of technology is a good strategy because it is what people like now and would give us better results when it comes to good learning. Thank you for your valuable contribution.
It is true that it is one of the ways to take and measure the scope of the educational models and the correct application for each student (something that is rarely taken into account).
thank you for your work.
Hello friend @joseph. The evidences of learning are very broad and varied, and its application will depend on the objective pursued, however within this variation we can define two types of evidence of learning, direct and indirect, for us a direct learning is seen at the time, now an indirect learning will be noticed in the student's performance depending on how this assimilating the knowledge we are imparting. Thank you for your contribution.
Hi @sandracarrascal
I had not heard or read this before, that "evidence of learning" is new to me, according to what I understand it is a way that the teacher apply to explore if the learning process is effective and if student is really learning, I will read more about this topic. Thank you for sharing this kind of information.
Best regards, be well.
Greetings friend @lupafilotaxia. They are paradigms that are used to explore the knowledge of the student and see the results in the evidence of learning, since all students do not have the same ability, performance at the time of providing knowledge of a given topic. Thank you for your contribution.
Hello @sandracarrascal
I did a diploma in teaching 4 years ago, and I had the opportunity to teach for 3 years. It is quite a complex task, reaching the students and being able to verify if they are really grasping the information, processing it, etc. It could be something objective, the detail is in making it all objective, in order to be able to quantify results.
Greetings friend. Certainly the evidence of learning are indispensable tools for a teacher to give guarantees that the learning objective has been met, perhaps many only focus on the traditional written test, but there are many methods and strategies that can be used and that adapt to the different learning styles of students, because not always everyone responds well to the same instrument.
Hello friend @emiliomoron I hope you are well, I agree exactly with your opinion the evidences of learning are tools that are essential for teachers is a guarantee that the goal was achieved to pursue, we always have to have several options when imparting knowledge as all students will adapt to any method always the goal is to teach to learn and understand us, Thanks for your valuable support
Hola amiga @sandracarrascal.
An extraordinary article that you share with us, where it is important to highlight what you express:
I agree with you because this way we realize that we are on the right path, thank you for sharing such educational content. Greetings and many successes.
Greetings friend @rbanzan79. The evidence of learning is a guarantee for teachers that will tell us that we are doing the job well, that the strategies we used were the right ones, and vice versa that we have to change strategies for the student to grasp the knowledge we are imparting. Thank you for your support
I think Learning is an individual process of understanding something that is useful for all aspects of life and the future. Learning is relating with a change with the changing outcome is coming from developing a new skill, experience, knowledge, and change of attitude. Moreover all these features are attribute of a professional teacher. The article was precise.
Hello friend @benie111. According to you learning is an individual process, but we also have to have clear strategies to use to provide good knowledge and get good results in a learning where the student understands clearly and concisely the subject to be treated. Thank you for your contribution.
This current situation has changed the whole learning system. Because if covid-19 we are teaching the children online but their is huge pro and cons in this type. We actually don't know if the children get the point that was thought in the class. As teachers cannot see the expression of the students online.
Hello friend @adityajainxds. Agree with you the situation we are going through has changed the learning model, now everything has to be distance learning and the students still have not yet adapted to this new learning model. Thanks for your support