Resources

Summary of the fifty Classroom Assessment Techniques from Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (Angelo and Cross).

How to add a rubric to a graded discussion to help students understand expectations for the discussion and how you intend to score their replies.

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

Alternatives may be advantageous to promote student learning and be more authentic means of students demonstrating what they have learned at the…

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

Noting that assessing reflection and reflective processes can be particularly difficult, this site provides suggestions and models.

A feedback method of efficiently giving high quality feedback through the use of IT and comment banks has been piloted on a large cohort of students…

Guidelines for designing valid and reliable exams, advantages and disadvantages of commonly used types of achievement test items, and general…

Discusses the value of peer assessment and offers guidelines for implementing peer assessment both in class and online.

Reviews ways that alternative assessments, also known as authentic assessments, can be used to improve student learning.

Topics include: concept mapping, learning logs, authentic testing, the transition from memorization to analysis; the lab practical; exams as learning…

Describes the advantages of rubrics and provides examples of rubrics used for paper assignments, projects, oral presentations, and class…

Instructor for using New Quizzes in Canvas (myCourses) Guide to using the Respondus LockDown Browser to prevent cheating on quizzes and exams in…

Knowledge Base article describing the use of the Turnitin SimCheck application with Canvas to detect possible plagiarism.

Faculty guide to New Quizzes in Canvas.

Using concept maps for classroom assessment.

A guide to implementing techniques that embed formative assessment with active learning.

An introduction to classroom assessment techniques (CATs) and a list of examples, including descriptions, suggestions for what to do with the data,…

Features resources on using classroom response systems (clickers), including descriptions of teaching and learning strategies and question types for…

Considerations for creating discussion rubrics and multiple examples.