Course Essential #5: Meaningful Assessment

Assessment strategies:

• Allow instructors to provide meaningful and timely feedback to students.
• Include rubrics or descriptive criteria that enable students to determine how they can meet the course student learning outcomes.
• Address knowledge acquisition and thinking skills development.
• Are sequenced and spaced effectively throughout the span of the course.
• Include opportunities for self-reflection.
• Provide both formative and summative feedback.

Resources

Assessment strategies:

1. Allow instructors to provide meaningful and timely feedback to students.

• Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work
• The Role of Online Instructor/Facilitator
• Teaching presence facilitates learning
• Three Types of Presence

2. Include rubrics or descriptive criteria that enable students to determine how they can meet the course student learning outcomes.

• Creating a rubric (tutorial)
• Grading and performance rubrics
• Getting started with rubrics - Berkeley Center for Teaching and Learning 

3. Address knowledge acquisition and thinking skills development.

• Why is it Difficult for Students to Learn Content in their Field?
• Problem Based Learning and Authentic Assessment in Digital Pedagogy: Embracing the Role of Collaborative Communities

4. Are sequenced and spaced effectively throughout the span of the course.

• Formative Evaluations in Online Classes
• The Hybrid Advantage: Graduate Student Perspectives of Hybrid Education Courses

5. Include opportunities for self-reflection.

• [A Better Blogging Assignment]
• 4 Dimensional Story Telling Web 2.0 Style

6. Provide both formative and summative feedback.

• Whys and Hows of Assessment
• Formative and summative assessments - Yale Center for Teaching and Learning
• Students' Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Assessment Feedback as a Learning Tool in an Introductory Problem-Solving Course
• The Impact of Feedback as Formative Assessment on Student Performance
• The Role of Written Formative Feedback in Inducing Non-Formal Learning among Masters Students

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