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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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
Type: Article
 Assessment and Feedback Summative Assessment
The research presented here demonstrates how聽value-added models聽can be compared on three criteria: reliability, year-to-year consistency and鈥
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-鈥
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鈥
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