Mix it up: Assessment alternatives
Assessing subject learning outcomes is the main focus of assessment, so analysing what you are looking for in the outcomes can help you define what skills and knowledge you are asking students to demonstrate.
Tag: Assessment
Rubrics Demystified – Writing measurable criteria and standards
Writing criteria and standards is a tough challenge many of us would rather prioritise to the bottom of the list!
LEGO® for Learning – Seriously!
The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method is a facilitated thinking, communication and problem solving technique. Its goal is to foster creative thinking about real-world challenges through metaphor and story-telling.
Why am I doing this assessment task?
This week’s focus comes from
Question 9 of the Subject Experience Survey: The goals of the assessment tasks in this subject were made clear to me.
Learning Assessment Techniques: LAT
The benefit to students is in the engaging nature of the tasks that allow students to bring their own experience to the context of the subject material for effective learning and development of lifelong learning skills.
Deploying Tests and Surveys (Interact2 Cheat Sheet)
This is a great two page cheat sheet, covering test and survey availability and insertion into content area. Deploy Tests and Surveys
Taking the Class Temperature: Cognitive and Affective Feedback
In Taking the Class Temperature, Moore & Arnold suggest that we also need to look at affective feedback to best promote positive learning outcomes for all students.
Incorporating 360-Degree Assessment into Your Classroom
360-Degree Assessment combines peer assessment, self-assessment and instructor assessment to provide feedback for growth and development of student learning.
Getting Started with Classroom Assessment Techniques
In Classroom Assessment Techniques, Professor Tom Pusateri discusses how we can use feedback to improve our teaching.
