Evaluation

Ignatian pedagogy seeks to go beyond assessment for intellectual mastery, it should contribute to growth of the whole person. In a desire to capture the full story about a student’s growth, a variety of assessment methods may be used. These can include traditional summative assessments like exams but also more formative approaches that require feedback, either from the instructor or the students’ peers or both. In keeping with the current research from NILOA Links to an external site. multiple types of assessment should be used, both qualitative and quantitative and learning should be measured, compared and triangulated over time.

Goals should be clearly articulated and students should be actively engaged in evaluating their own learning. Hattie and Timperley (2007) reveal that effective feedback is ongoing and answers the questions, "Where am I going? (What are the goals?), How am I learning? (What progress am I making toward the goal?), and "Where to next? (What activities need to be undertaken to make better progress?" (p.86).