Summative Assessment

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Rubrics are a powerful and flexible tool for assessing students' learning in classrooms and programs. This workshop was presented at DePaul…
Assessment and Feedback Formative Assessment, Grading, Rubrics and Checklists, Summative Assessment
Describes four types of rubrics (analytic, developmental, holistic, and checklists), gives examples and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of…
Type: Tutorial
Assessment and Feedback Formative Assessment, Grading, Rubrics and Checklists, Summative Assessment
Using macros in Microsoft Word to create comment banks to more efficiently grade essays.
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Feedback, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
Structured Feedback is a mid-semester learning/assessment tool designed to provide feedback to students and for the instructor to adjust teaching…
Assessment and Feedback Feedback, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
This study examines how student progress in college, indicated by the performance difference between freshmen and seniors after controlling for…
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Summative Assessment
The research presented here demonstrates how value-added models can be compared on three criteria: reliability, year-to-year consistency and…
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Summative Assessment, Value Added Assessment
This study describes the results with a promising set of cognitive assessment tools that can be used to measure general as distinct from domain-…
Type: Article
Assessment and Feedback Summative Assessment, Value Added Assessment
A list of exam and paper alternatives organized by purpose and performance level and guiding questions to assist faculty to determine the types of…
Type: Website
Assessment and Feedback Exam Alternatives, Summative Assessment
Ideas for rethinking quiz practices.
Type: Report
Assessment and Feedback Formative Assessment, Grading, Summative Assessment
How to write good questions, including considerations for writing multiple choice items that test higher-order thinking.
Type: Website
Assessment and Feedback Formative Assessment, Grading, Summative Assessment