What it is

Assessment is a continuous process of establishing learning outcomes, implementing instruction, gathering evidence of student learning, and using the evidence to improve teaching and learning. One simple way to classify assessment is to categorize it as formative or summative. In addition to the classification of assessment as formative and summative, the self-guided Assessment Core Course encompasses assessment practices that instructors can adapt to provide options and choices to diverse students to demonstrate their learning in authentic and alternative situations.

Why do it?

Assessment is integral to both teaching and learning. The backward design model stipulates that instructional design should begin with clear learning outcomes and incorporate assessments that will help students achieve the outcomes. It is evident that the most productive use of assessment is to measure student progress toward the attainment or mastery of stated learning outcomes.

Getting Started

There are many different forms of assessment. At a basic level, assessment is categorized as formative or summative. What each are, and how to do it can be found in the self-guided Assessment Core Course. At your own pace, explore assessment practices, tips for creating assessments, and ways to provide options and choices to diverse students to demonstrate their learning in authentic and alternative situations.

The self-guided Assessment Core Course encompasses eight components of comprehensive assessment as well as seven evidence-informed strategies for rethinking summative assessment as a pathway to deeper learning assessment. The broad representation of assessment underscores the need to implement assessment practices and methods that support the academic success and future professional needs of all students. To attain this purpose, it is important that instructors use multiple methods of assessment to reach all students and allow them to demonstrate their learning not just their test-taking abilities.

Are you up for a rewarding challenge? Join us on a journey to re-imagine assessment as a pathway to deeper learning in your practice! You are invited to participate in a self-guided and self-paced assessment refresher on the 10 modules that subsume the Center for Teaching and Learning Assessment Core.

Assessment is a continuous process of establishing learning outcomes, implementing instruction, gathering evidence of student learning, and using the evidence to improve teaching and learning.

Reimagining Assessment in the Pandemic Era: Comprehensive Assessment of Student Learning

 

Comprehensive Assessment of Student Learning: 6 Components

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Reimagining Assessment as a Pathway to Deeper Learning: 7 Strategies

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RUBRICS

Academic expectations are clearly and consistently communicated to students. The instructor uses a variety assessment tools during the course to monitor learner progress and uses that data to adjust and pace the teaching of the course. Grading procedures are designed to accurately reflect students’ acquisition of key knowledge and skills developed during a course. Summative (final) assessments are directly aligned to the content and skills taught and developed during the course (the course outcomes).

Assessing Student Learning Outcomes

The following presentation slides provide an overview of different types of assessments.

Assessment

Communication Rubrics

The following rubric can be used to assess annotated bibliographies. Oral Communication Skills and Emotional Intelligence. These rubrics were graciously shared with us by our colleagues at RNtoBSN.org in Houston Texas. While designed for future nurses, they are informative for all of us preparing students for the world of work.

Annontated Bibliography Rubric

The following rubric can be used to assess an individual’s oral presentation.

Individual Oral Presentation Rubric

The following rubric can be used to assess reflective writing.

Reflective Writing Rubric

The following rubric can be used to assess visual performance.

Visual Performance Rubric

Critical Thinking Rubrics

The following rubric can be used to assess comparisons. The process of comparison has three distinct steps: the selection of items to compare; the selection of characteristics on which to base a comparison, and a description of how items are the same and different.

Comparison Rubric

The following rubric can be used to assess creative thinking at the higher education level which can only be expressed productively within a particular domain. The student must be versed in the strategies and skills of the domain in order to make connections and synthesize.

Creative Thinking Rubric

Related Resource: Association of American Colleges & Universities VALUE Rubric Development Project

The following rubric can be used to assess ethical reasoning.

Ethical Reasoning Rubric

The following rubric can be used to assess the inquiry processes.

Inquiry Rubric

Related Resource: Association of American Colleges & Universities VALUE Rubric Development Project