Visible learning is to have the learning measurable in a way or another. The moment I read this post, I recalled a quote from the textbook of Barkley (2010):
"Although the terms teaching and learning are typically paired, those of us who teach know that students don't always learn. When I complained about this early in my teaching career, a colleague chided me: "saying 'I taught students something, they just didn't learn it'." (p. 16).
Measurable teaching and measurable learning is fundamental in teaching because teachers need to know that students have learned what they suppose to learn.
I had an incident in one of my nursing courses, I confronted my teacher in the midterm exam and told her in front of the whole class that the material you were teaching us has nothing to do with this exam, how fair is that to evaluate us on things that you did not teach?!. I was one of only seven out of 32 students who passed the midterm exam. However, instead of fixing things so we get the teaching aligned with the evaluation, I was blacklisted and the instructor failed me on my next assignment and awarded 95-100% mark for the rest of the class. Where is visible teaching or visible learning in this situation?!!
Reference:
Barkley, E., (2010). Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, iii-398 pp. 978-0-470-28191-8.
"Although the terms teaching and learning are typically paired, those of us who teach know that students don't always learn. When I complained about this early in my teaching career, a colleague chided me: "saying 'I taught students something, they just didn't learn it'." (p. 16).
Measurable teaching and measurable learning is fundamental in teaching because teachers need to know that students have learned what they suppose to learn.
I had an incident in one of my nursing courses, I confronted my teacher in the midterm exam and told her in front of the whole class that the material you were teaching us has nothing to do with this exam, how fair is that to evaluate us on things that you did not teach?!. I was one of only seven out of 32 students who passed the midterm exam. However, instead of fixing things so we get the teaching aligned with the evaluation, I was blacklisted and the instructor failed me on my next assignment and awarded 95-100% mark for the rest of the class. Where is visible teaching or visible learning in this situation?!!
Reference:
Barkley, E., (2010). Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, iii-398 pp. 978-0-470-28191-8.