Drake Institute Assessment For Learning Workshop Series: Gauging Student Prior Knowledge

Critical to effective instruction is a clear understanding of what students already know. In this workshop, Jane Hammons, Drake Institute Affiliate and assistant professor, University Libraries, will provide an overview of research findings on the impact of prior knowledge on student learning. She will share examples of different quick activities that participants can use to identify when students may need additional guidance, or where they have misconceptions that are interfering with their ability to learn new content. Participants should leave the session with practical strategies they can employ to gauge students’ prior learning.

After this workshop participants will be able to: 

• Identify the ways in which prior knowledge can help or hinder student learning.
• Use quick activities to assess students’ prior learning.

You may register here.

If you have registered for this event, or are on the waitlist and require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate, please contact drakeinstitute@osu.edu. Requests should be made at least two weeks prior to the event, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

All members of the university community are welcome in Drake Institute activities, programs, services, and employment —regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, HIV/AIDS status, military status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other bases under the law.

Institute for Teaching and Learning programming is offered in accordance with university guidelines associated with in-person and remote activities. The Institute will inform registrants of delivery modifications should those guidelines change.