Resources
Resource | Category | Topic |
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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.
Type: Application Support |
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…
Type: Application Support |
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…
Type: Presentation |
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…
Type: Presentation |
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 |