I want to give our workshop participants an easy way to access our handout entitled: "Helpful Tips for filling in the Evidence of Teacher and Student Learning (ETSL) Template. Below please find most of the text without any of the diagrams...

What is the relationship among the major components of the ETSL project? assessment IS THE GLUE OF THE
RELATIONSHIP OF ETSL COMPONENTS. Evidence improves if assessment demands it. Assessment improves if it shows better evidence of student learning. Student learning improves if assessment supports learning. Teacher learning improves if assessment yields better evidence.

HELPFUL ASSESSMENT TIP: Improve your assessment process because it drives teacher and student learning and collects the evidence of improved student learning.

IMPROVING YOUR ASSESSMENT PROCESS

HELPFUL ASSESSMENT TIP: Embed the assessment. Gather better evidence. Ask students what they have learned. Sample Pre-, Mid- and Post- learning statements for stronger validity and reliability.

OUTCOMES

How do “Outcomes” measure the relationship of teaching and learning? The outcome of teaching is a conversation that results in improved teaching and student learning, normally measured in a set of outcomes.

HELPFUL ASSESSMENT TIP: The best evidence of the learning process comes from learning statements that show the outcome of student learning. You have to ask for these learning statements from students and your self in order to capture it as you go along, otherwise, the learning process goes un-assessed.

MEASURING THE LEARNING PROCESS

How can we track and measure the learning process? The learning process is formed from opinions, which you can track as learning statements over time. The key is to measure learning before the action of teaching takes place

HELPFUL ASSESSMENT TIP: Choose a teaching and learning moment that highlights student demonstration of learning. Choose to display what students know before and after the event. Highlight their learning and yours. Describe the difference between their pre- and post- learning. Capture a mid- learning moment to increase accuracy.

HOW CAN WE MEASURE THE OUTCOME OF THIS LEARNING PROCESS?

The difference between a Pre- and Post- learning statement is the measureable progress in learning. Although learning statements seem like nothing more than opinion, compared to other learning statements recorded at the same time, they take on assessment meaning. Display before and after learning statements together
and compare them to each other and to other students.

HELPFUL ASSESSMENT TIP: The DIFFERENCE between PRE- and POST- LEARNING STATEMENTS is the progress in learning that you have documented.