Subject Guides: Assessment and Evaluation: Assessment

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Assessing What Your Students Know, Want to Know, and Have Learned Strategies to assess student learning in both traditional and online higher education classrooms.
How To Design A 21st Century Assessment While assessments are the focus of this blog post, replacement thinking can be applied across the curriculum: in instructional strategies, classroom activities, or in formative data collection using tools such as Kahoot, Socrative, or Google Forms. To help you start thinking about Replacement Thinking, I’d like to offer the following action steps to bring more contemporary ideas into your own professional practices.
Blended Assessments of Learning The online environment does provide blended learning instructors with opportunities to implement a variety of learning assessments using new and innovative tools. The following section reviews two broad categories of assessments, formal and informal, that can help shape how you assess your students in blended courses.
Direct Versus Indirect Assessment of Student Learning It is important to understand the distinction between direct and indirect evidence of student learning.
Five Types of Quizzes That Deepen Engagement with Course Content "I keep discovering innovative ways faculty are using quizzes, and these practices rest on different premises. I thought I’d use this post to briefly share some of them."
Measuring for Learning (US Dept of Education - Office of Educational Technology) Measuring learning is a necessary part of every teacher’s work. Teachers need to check for student understanding, and parents, students, and leaders need to know how students are doing overall in order to help them successfully prepare for college and work. In addition to supporting learning across content areas, technology-enabled assessments can help reduce the time, resources, and disruption to learning required for the administration of paper assessments1Assessments delivered using technology also can provide a more complete and nuanced picture of student needs, interests, and abilities than can traditional assessments, allowing educators to personalize learning. (US Dept of Education - Office of Educational Technology)
Pivotal Education’s fresh take on assessment: Negotiated Assessment Grid Negotiated Assessment Grid (first part): A Negotiated Assessment Grid is a grid of task specific criteria. The criteria are agreed on by the teacher and students together, and written on the grid using the students’ language as much as possible. The grid is used for self, teacher and peer assessment with room for targets to be recorded and ideas developed.
Quick Summarizing Strategies to Use in the Classroom Seventy-eight summarizing strategies, written and non-written, to try.
Smart Online Assessments for Teaching Mathematics The article offers the authors' view on the rationale, design and potential effect of an online resource on teaching mathematics. They mention the challenges of teaching such subject in a secondary education class comprising students with a range of experiences, skills and attitudes. They also note a set of online tests which are made to inform teachers on the comprehension of students in their classes.
10 Fun-Filled Formative Assessment Ideas Whether you're a formative assessment newbie or a veteran, these techniques can help spice up how you check for understanding in the classroom. They range from the classics, like exit slips, to ideas you may have never thought to try.
The Do’s and Don’ts of Building Tests Tip Sheet

Group Work Multiplier An effective method for "fairly" evaluating group projects
Top 10 UDL Tips for Assessment Ten ways to use a UDL framework to design and reflect on assessments.

Four Must-Know Tips for Giving Effective Feedback to Students BAM Radio: Student feedback can be productive, counterproductive, or just plain useless. Our guests offer vital tips for giving feedback that advances student learning.

E-Books

Assessment For and As Learning (Open Library resource Collection of 50+ Videos) The Educators in Focus series features more than 50 instructional videos made by Ontario educators for Ontario educators as a way to inform their professional development, discover new strategies and implement innovative pedagogical practices.