Assessment Toolkit

Example Assessment Approaches

Example Assessment Approaches Business Word, Rook, & Lancaster (2011): An assessment note on the utilization of the major field test in business. (link is external) Eastman, Allen, & Superville (2001): Developing an MBA assessment program: Guidance from the literature and one program's experience(link is external...

Design Effective Assessments

Overview

Assessments can be used both to promote learning as well as provide useful insight into student progress toward a particular learning outcome. There are two general categories of assessments that highlight these different purposes: formative and summative.

Formative & Summative Assessments

Formative assessments are for learning. Their aim is to provide both the students and instructor with an idea of where their level of understanding is at the current moment, and enable the instructor to adjust accordingly to meet the emerging needs...

Assessment Rubrics

Overview

A rubric is commonly defined as a tool that articulates the expectations for an assignment by listing criteria, and for each criteria, describing levels of quality (Andrade, 2000; Arter & Chappuis, 2007; Stiggins, 2001). Criteria are used in determining the level at which student work meets expectations. Markers of quality give students a clear idea about what must be done to demonstrate a certain level of mastery, understanding, or proficiency (i.e., "Exceeds Expectations" does xyz, "Meets Expectations" does only xy or yz, "Developing" does only x or y or z). Rubrics...

Alternatives to Traditional Testing

Overview

For many courses of varying format and size, across many disciplines, reasonable alternatives to traditional tests (i.e., paper-based T/F or Multiple Choice) exist. In fact, oftentimes the alternatives may even be advantageous to promote student learning and be more authentic means of students demonstrating what they have learned at the higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy (synthesis, analysis, evaluation). All such courses should...

Academic Integrity

Read more to find out about ways to encourage academic integrity in your courses, what to do when a breach in academic integrity is suspected, and what students need to know regarding ensuring academic integrity, consequences of a breach, and procedures to follow if suspected of a breach in academic integrity.