Evaluating and Creating Blooms levels

 I have been facilitating some workshops this summer with other faculty.  One of the topics that has come up is what types of assessments match different Blooms taxonomy levels.

The 2 levels of the revised Blooms Taxonomy that has come into question the most is evaluate and create.  It has been a bit challenging to explain why evaluate and create are not able to be assessed on a multiple choice examination.

In an article by Williams (2017), there is a discussion about the alternative assessment. The article suggests that assessment be used for learning rather than an asssessment of learning.  

I reallly like this idea and I had already been thinking about how the rapid fire tests currently being offered may not get to the level of learning desired for health care providers.  Of course the challenge is that most health professional licensure examinations are multiple choice.

This made me think about how produsage may fit with Blooms and in health professional preparation. Which comes first?  Should students complete produsage "for" learning before they are assessed with a multiple choice test for assessment "of" learning. Or should students complete produsage after a multiple choice test to improve higher order cognitive skills.

Consider a health care provider learning about diabetes?  Should they first be tested on the diagnostic criteria and treatments? Or should they first evaluate a patient case and respond with a course of action?

Williams, P. (2017). Assessing collaborative learning: Big data, analytics and university futuresLinks to an external site.. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 42(6), 978-989. doi:10.1080/02602938.2016.1216084