Assessment Strategies

Welcome to Assessment Strategies

This module addresses how to create effective assessments that help students grasp meaningful and complex ideas, challenge them, and help them learn important concepts and skills.

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Module Sections

Understanding the Role of Assessment in Learning

What exactly do we mean when we talk about assessment of student learning?

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Assessment Types: Diagnostic, Formative and Summative

Learn about Diagnostic, Formative and Summative Assessment.

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Feedback and Formative Assessment Tools

Why Feedback is Important to Learning?

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Matching Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes

When you begin the process of designing assessment tasks for a course, it is helpful to start by re-revisiting the course learning outcomes.

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Sample Assessment Methods

Assessment strategies that you might want to consider for your course.

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Designing Authentic Assessments

In this section of the module, you will learn about authentic assessments and how you can use them in your course.

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Fair Assessment Practices

What makes an assessment ‘fair’ or ‘unfair’? As instructors, it is important to consider this question.

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Involving Students in the Assessment Process

The current thinking in higher education advocates for students to have a greater involvement in their learning and in how their learning is assessed.

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Examples of Innovative Assessments

Explore how university teachers in different disciplines use innovative assessment approaches to measure learning progress.

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Making Assessment Criteria Clear to Students

Why is Clear Assessment Criteria Important?

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Summary and References

This section includes the summary of the module, a module assignment and references for the module.

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