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Value-Added Assessment: Accountability’s New Frontier (Value-Added Assessment Accountability’s New Frontier) A policy paper advocating for value added assessment Type: Report	Assessment and Feedback	Summative Assessment, Value Added Assessment
Selecting Assessment Types (University of Florida) Four steps to creating learner-centered assessments: identify purpose, identify learning levels, select assessments, and build assessments. Includes… Type: Website	Assessment and Feedback	Exam Alternatives, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
Canvas: Getting Started with New Quizzes Faculty guide to New Quizzes in Canvas. Type: Application Support	Assessment and Feedback, Technologies for Teaching and Learning	Canvas (MyCourses), Formative Assessment, Grading, Summative Assessment
Canvas New Quizzes Faculty Guide Instructor for using New Quizzes in Canvas (myCourses) Guide to using the Respondus LockDown Browser to prevent cheating on quizzes and exams in… Type: Application Support	Assessment and Feedback, Technologies for Teaching and Learning	Canvas (MyCourses), Formative Assessment, Grading, Summative Assessment
Using Technology to Support Alternative Assessment and Electronic Portfolios (Barrett, H.) A large collection of resources on ePortfolios. Type: Website	Assessment and Feedback	ePortfolio, Exam Alternatives, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
Beyond Tests and Quizzes: Creative Assessments in The College Classroom (Mezeske, R. and Mezeske, B.) Topics include: concept mapping, learning logs, authentic testing, the transition from memorization to analysis; the lab practical; exams as learning… Type: Book	Assessment and Feedback	Authentic/Case/Project/Problem Based Learning, Exam Alternatives, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
Introduction to Rubrics: An Assessment Tool to Save Grading Time, Convey Effective Feedback, and Promote Student Learning (Stevens, D.D. and Levi, A.) A primer for faculty considering using rubrics for the first time or who wish to refine their use of rubrics, including what rubrics are, basic… Type: Book	Assessment and Feedback	Formative Assessment, Grading, Rubrics and Checklists, Summative Assessment
Value-Added Assessment (Pre- and Post-testing) (Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment at Skidmore College) Value-added assessment attempts to measure student growth over time, from the time that a student enters a program until the student graduates. This… Type: Website	Assessment and Feedback	Summative Assessment, Value Added Assessment
VALUE (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education) Rubrics (AACU) Rubrics for sixteen learning outcomes that both employers and faculty consider essential, developed by the Association of American Colleges and… Type: Website	Assessment and Feedback	Feedback, Formative Assessment, Grading, Rubrics and Checklists, Summative Assessment
Assessing Reflection (DePaul University Teaching Commons) Noting that assessing reflection and reflective processes can be particularly difficult, this site provides suggestions and models. Type: Website	Assessment and Feedback	Formative Assessment, Grading, Rubrics and Checklists, Summative Assessment
Designing Rubrics Workshop (DePaul University Teaching Commons, 50:46) Rubrics are a powerful and flexible tool for assessing students' learning in classrooms and programs. This workshop was presented at DePaul… Type: Presentation	Assessment and Feedback	Formative Assessment, Grading, Rubrics and Checklists, Summative Assessment
Rubrics (DePaul University Teaching Commons) Describes four types of rubrics (analytic, developmental, holistic, and checklists), gives examples and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of… Type: Tutorial	Assessment and Feedback	Formative Assessment, Grading, Rubrics and Checklists, Summative Assessment
Grading Essays How-To: Use Macros to Save Time (Neal, R.) Using macros in Microsoft Word to create comment banks to more efficiently grade essays. Type: Article	Assessment and Feedback	Feedback, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
Structured Feedback: A Tool for Teaching and Learning (Radhakrishna, R.; Ewing, J.; Chikthimmah, N. and Hoover, T.) Structured Feedback is a mid-semester learning/assessment tool designed to provide feedback to students and for the instructor to adjust teaching… Type: Presentation	Assessment and Feedback	Feedback, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
Measuring value-added in higher education: Conditions and caveats. Results from using the Measure of Academic Proficiency and Progress (MAPP™) (Liu, O.L.) This study examines how student progress in college, indicated by the performance difference between freshmen and seniors after controlling for… Type: Article	Assessment and Feedback	Summative Assessment
Selecting value-added models for postsecondary institutional assessment (Steedle, J.T.) The research presented here demonstrates how value-added models can be compared on three criteria: reliability, year-to-year consistency and… Type: Article	Assessment and Feedback	Summative Assessment, Value Added Assessment
An approach to measuring cognitive outcomes across higher-education institutions (Klein, S.P. ; Kuh, G.D. ; Chun, M. ; Hamilton, L. and Shavelson, R.) This study describes the results with a promising set of cognitive assessment tools that can be used to measure general as distinct from domain-… Type: Article	Assessment and Feedback	Summative Assessment, Value Added Assessment
Alternatives to Traditional Exams and Papers (Indiana University Bloomington Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning) A list of exam and paper alternatives organized by purpose and performance level and guiding questions to assist faculty to determine the types of… Type: Website	Assessment and Feedback	Exam Alternatives, Summative Assessment
Designing Better Quizzes (Magna Publications/Faculty Focus). Ideas for rethinking quiz practices. Type: Report	Assessment and Feedback	Formative Assessment, Grading, Summative Assessment
Writing Good Multiple Choice Questions (Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University). How to write good questions, including considerations for writing multiple choice items that test higher-order thinking. Type: Website	Assessment and Feedback	Formative Assessment, Grading, Summative Assessment

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