The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark. Summative assessments are often high stakes, …

However, you don’t have to be an assessment expert to employ sound practices to guide your teaching. Here we present the basic concepts you need to know to become more systematic in your …

Your assessment measures students’ ability to compare and critique the arguments of different authors, but your instructional strategies focus entirely on summarizing the arguments of different authors.

Summative Assessment The gathering of information at the conclusion of a course, program, or undergraduate career to improve learning or to meet accountability demands.

These assessments can be quantitative or qualitative. They can be done as reflective writing assignments or as questionnaires targeting specific dimensions of teamwork.

Assessment is simply the process of collecting information about student learning and performance to improve education. At Carnegie Mellon, we believe that for assessment to be meaningful (not bean …

The course includes a multitude of formative practice problems that are scaffolded and include detailed feedback, interactives such as PhET simulations and virtual lab experiments, engaging media …

As you work on developing your remote or hybrid course, either by translating from a traditional course or for iterative re-design, consider the items on the checklist below. Each item draws on learning …

Although your particular field of study or type of assessment may not be represented, viewing a rubric that is designed for a similar assessment may give you ideas for the kinds of criteria, descriptions, …

Instructor Assessment of Group Product ... Student Assessment of Group Product ... From Winchester- Seeto, T. (April, 2002). Assessment of collaborative work – collaboration versus assessment. Invited …