When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...
The Higher Learning Commission (UW’s accrediting body) offers this definition of assessment: “Effective assessment is best understood as a strategy for understanding, confirming, and improving student ...
It may include multiple levels of learning outcomes, demonstrate redundancies, gaps, and misalignments in content, measures of assessment, and/or data collected. Statements of what we want students to ...
When students are involved in their assessment, they’re empowered to become more self-directed learners. They take ownership of the learning process and become more independent problem solvers and ...