Learn More
Hide
Download
Download a zip file that includes all the web pages and downloadable files from the instructor's materialsAssessment of Module Goals
Below, you will find a list of learning goals for each unit of the module. Each unit is associated with formative assessments that measure student progress toward individual unit learning outcomes. These assessments and rubrics may be found on the individual unit pages. Finally, to assess overall learning in this module, you will find a two-part summative assessment directly related to the overriding module goals. This assignment directly assesses how well students can integrate what they have learned about the systems in which lead interacts and how to apply such knowledge to inform policy decisions.
Overall Module Assessments
Each class period is designed to meet specific learning goals for the module. The following chart indicates which goals are met by which activities.
Assessment Chart (Excel 2007 (.xlsx) 11kB Mar9 17)
The following three documents can be used to evaluate student progress through the module by being distributed as pre- and post-assessments. There are geoscience questions, big picture questions, and module specific questions.
Summative Assessment
The Summative Assessment is comprised of 2 parts, a Systems Diagram and a Policy Memo.
Summative Assessment (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 39kB Aug21 24)
Summative Assessment Rubric (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 40kB Mar9 17)
Unit Assessments
Individual learning goals for each unit are presented here but assessments and rubrics are embedded in the unit pages.
Unit 1 Goals:
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
- Describe the use and distribution of lead in the human environment.
- Develop hypotheses for understanding how human exposures to lead vary temporally and spatially.
- Identify gaps in international policies and programs that contribute to adverse health outcomes.
- Explain how lead is absorbed and distributed within humans and their children recognizing the human body as a system through which lead cycles.
- Apply a lead exposure model to evaluate the significance of various factors in predicting health outcomes in children.
Unit 2 Goals:
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
- Assess the accessibility and caliber of lead poisoning incidence data across multiple scales and evaluate factors that impact data quality.
- Propose recommendations to improve data availability and quality.
- Analyze spatial and temporal maps to explore the distribution of risk and of health outcomes at a community scale.
- Evaluate social determinants that contribute to disparities in lead risk and health outcomes within a community.
- Explore risk of lead exposure to individuals in domestic and peri-domestic environments.
- Evaluate management strategies to reduce childhood lead exposure in the domestic and peri-domestic environment.
Unit 3 Goals:
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
- Examine legal and regulatory approaches to reduce children's exposure to various sources of lead.
- Identify gaps in existing policies and programs that contribute to disproportionate health outcomes.
- Develop policy recommendations to reduce children's risk of exposure within a specific community.
- Develop a comprehensive systems model following the pathways of lead and its potential risk to humans from its use in commercial products to its residual presence in the built environment.
