- Simple questionnaires – the solving is a better way than re-reading the material, as it forces you to understand the study material. Questionnaires should refer to:
- What are the learned concepts? – If you cannot simple explain with your own words what you’ve been learned, then it means that you don’t understand.
- What are the concepts that bind together or underlying?
- What is the purpose of learning? The next questions arise: What I know now? What I would like to learn? What problems can I solve with what I have learnt?
- What problems are you capable solving with new learned concepts?
- Exercises and problems – which are explained in the educational material should not only be read, they should be physically solved. In this way you will understand the concepts that were used to solve them. Then try to solve similar problems and so you will know if you understand the concepts. It is preferable to understand how to solve problems against to memorise many types of problems.
- Practice –to use a method, rule, procedure or process into a particular field in order to obtain some expected results. Practice helps us to obtain a routine or habit that will quickly get results.
- Discussions – in whole class or in a small group help you to understand (through feed-back) what you have learnt and what gaps still exist.
- Checklists and inventories – take you through the main points of learning material and so you can easily discover the gaps.
- Presentation – record a presentation of what you have learned and then watch it. You can ask somebody else for an advice or an opinion.
Every evaluation should begin from learning objectives.
