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A policy paper advocating for value added assessment
Type: Report
Assessment and Feedback Summative Assessment, Value Added Assessment
Four steps to creating learner-centered assessments: identify purpose, identify learning levels, select assessments, and build assessments. Includes…
Type: Website
Assessment and Feedback Exam Alternatives, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
Faculty guide to New Quizzes in Canvas.
Assessment and Feedback, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Canvas (MyCourses), Formative Assessment, Grading, Summative Assessment
Instructor for using New Quizzes in Canvas (myCourses) Guide to using the Respondus LockDown Browser to prevent cheating on quizzes and exams in…
Assessment and Feedback, Technologies for Teaching and Learning Canvas (MyCourses), Formative Assessment, Grading, Summative Assessment
A large collection of resources on ePortfolios.
Type: Website
Assessment and Feedback ePortfolio, Exam Alternatives, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
Topics include: concept mapping, learning logs, authentic testing, the transition from memorization to analysis; the lab practical; exams as learning…
Type: Book
Assessment and Feedback Authentic/Case/Project/Problem Based Learning, Exam Alternatives, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
A primer for faculty considering using rubrics for the first time or who wish to refine their use of rubrics, including what rubrics are, basic…
Type: Book
Assessment and Feedback Formative Assessment, Grading, Rubrics and Checklists, Summative Assessment
Value-added assessment attempts to measure student growth over time, from the time that a student enters a program until the student graduates. This…
Type: Website
Assessment and Feedback Summative Assessment, Value Added Assessment
Rubrics for sixteen learning outcomes that both employers and faculty consider essential, developed by the Association of American Colleges and…
Type: Website
Assessment and Feedback Feedback, Formative Assessment, Grading, Rubrics and Checklists, Summative Assessment
Noting that assessing reflection and reflective processes can be particularly difficult, this site provides suggestions and models.
Type: Website
Assessment and Feedback Formative Assessment, Grading, Rubrics and Checklists, Summative Assessment
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