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Process of observing and measuring learning; provide teachers with a better understanding of what students are learning and engages students more deeply in the process of learning
Provides diagnostic feedback to students and instructors at short-term intervals (e.g., during a class or on a weekly basis)
Provides a description of students' level of attainment upon completion of an activity, module, or course (E-portfolio due at end of course might be a form of summative assessment.)
Provides instructors with curricular feedback (e.g., the value of a field trip or oral presentation technique)
Integrated within learning activities themselves, educative assessment builds student and faculty insight and understandings about their own learning and teaching. Also known as active assessment. (Assessment is a form of learning)
Scoring Rubric (Assessment Strategy)
Focuses and promotes learning; provides clear statements of the level of knowledge students are expected to achieve to receive a given grade, dimensions of the quality of work expected, commentaries (descriptions) of expectations of knowledge and quality that distinguishes each grade band
Instructional Rubric (Assessment Strategy)
Give students information on essential elements of high quality product, levels of achievement, criteria for each level clearly described
Concept Maps (Assessment Strategy)
Help students see "big pictures"; provide a springboard for classroom discussions; help students develop the abilities to draw reasonable inferences from observations, synthesize and integrate information and ideas, learn concepts and theories in a subject area
Porfolios (Assessment Strategy)
Document student learning and improve student metacognition; personalized long term documentation of student mastery of course material;
ConcepTests (Assessment Strategy)
Technique used often in lecture setting; instructor presents questions and students choose answers; students are given a chance to make other students see why their answer-choice is correct
Knowledge Survey (Assessment Strategy)
Series of questions that cover full content of a course; evaluate student learning and mastery at all levels; can be both formative and summative; help students learn; help faculty improve classes; aid departments and programs develop new curricula
Oral Presentations (Assessment Strategy)
Often used to assess student learning from student individual and group research projects
Written Reports (Assessment Strategy)
Classic assessment used by faculty; may be as short as one page or as long as a term paper
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