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Assessment Strategies

Strategies for gauging your assessment

 Ask if your assessment strategies are an accurate reflection of student

learning. The point here is not just to ask if your assessment accurately

records what they know, but also to ask if assessment records what and how

they learned. Does your assessment measure different levels of

understanding? Does it primarily measure a student’s ability to memorize or

are there assessment strategies that focus on students’ critical thinking,

analyzing, and synthesizing skills?

 Ensure that there is a clear logic to your Learning Outcomes, content and

assessment and that you link these in meaningful ways.

Strategies for making your assessment strategies engaging

 Move away assessment that focuses only on asking students to give the ‘right’

answer. Rote memorization may result in students being able to give the

correct answer, but it does not always translate into deep learning. Asking

students to apply concepts requires them to understand those concepts in

ways that defining them does not.

 Use a variety of evaluation strategies.

 Have students evaluate their own work and the work of classmates prior to

formal evaluation.

 Provide students with the grading rubric in advance and have them fill it out

prior to submitting. Provide students with clear feedback on their assessment.