Summative Assessment

Rubrics are a powerful and flexible tool for assessing students' learning in classrooms and programs. This workshop was presented at DePaul…

Describes four types of rubrics (analytic, developmental, holistic, and checklists), gives examples and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of…

Using macros in Microsoft Word to create comment banks to more efficiently grade essays.

Structured Feedback is a mid-semester learning/assessment tool designed to provide feedback to students and for the instructor to adjust teaching…

This study examines how student progress in college, indicated by the performance difference between freshmen and seniors after controlling for…

The research presented here demonstrates how value-added models can be compared on three criteria: reliability, year-to-year consistency and…

This study describes the results with a promising set of cognitive assessment tools that can be used to measure general as distinct from domain-…

A list of exam and paper alternatives organized by purpose and performance level and guiding questions to assist faculty to determine the types of…

Ideas for rethinking quiz practices.

How to write good questions, including considerations for writing multiple choice items that test higher-order thinking.