Assessment design that supports authentic learning (and discourages cheating) Assessing your assessment: creating inclusive and meaningful assignments Students benefit from having mixed methods of ...

Indirect measures include surveys, focus groups, and other activities that gather impressions or opinions about the program and/or its learning outcomes. Educational Assessment staff are happy to ...

Learning and assessment will happen simultaneously, and teacher will use a variety of assessment methods and tools to collect data and analyze it with the purpose of enhancing learning. 1.

Capstone courses integrate knowledge, concepts, and skills associated with an entire sequence of study in a program. This method of assessment is unique because the courses themselves become the ...

Current research on teaching and learning suggests that we may consider three approaches to assessment: i) assessment for learning; ii) assessment of learning; and iii) assessment as learning.

Many of my conversations with faculty members focus on the challenges they face when trying to assess learning in large classes. The best learner-centred assessment methods are no match for 200-person ...

Under immensely challenging circumstances, universities have been handed an opportunity to change for good. They should use this opportunity to focus on methods of assessment that put learning first.

In order to ensure compliance with the Middle States Commission on Higher Education's accrediting standards, all academic programs should assess at least one learning outcome per year, with the entire ...

This article in the Medical Education series provides a conceptual framework for and a brief update on commonly used and emerging methods of assessment, discusses the strengths and limitations of e ...