Thread: Learning Logs

Learning logs are a carryover from student portfolios. As with student portfolios, the practical reality of using these as an on-going assessment tool is that it's difficult to schedule time to conference with students.

Given an average conference time of 3-5 minutes and a class of 21 students, you're looking at a minimum of one hour just to conference.

Where is this time supposed to come from? Do I take it away from reading? Math? Science?

Learning logs are potentially useful but I don't think they're cost effective in terms of my instructional time. Instead of using an hour to conference with students, I would prefer to use this time for one on one tutorial assistance or small group instruction.

For information about logs, visit:

Queens University, Belfast: Project learning logs and reflective reviews:
[url]http://itsoc.mgt.qub.ac.uk/notes/proj/learnlog.html[/url]

Reasons to use logs: Facilitated Systems:
[urlhttp://facilitatedsystems.com/llogs.html[/url]

Christian Eduation: Examples of Logs/Journals:
[url]http://curriculumfutures.org/assessment/a04-06a.html[/url]

Christian Education: Sample scoring techniques:
[url]http://www.curriculumfutures.org/assessment/a04-06b.html[/url]