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Educational Assessment: Designing a System for More Meaningful Results
Making Sense of Higher Education Assessment Educational Assessment: Designing a System for More Meaningful Results Assessing institutional effectiveness is a noble pursuit, but measuring student learning is not always easy. As with so many things we try to quantify, there’s much more to learning than a number in a datasheet. When it comes to assessment.
Recent Seminars
How Good Is Good Enough? Setting Benchmarks or Standards
More and more, assessments are playing a key role in your institution’s accreditation and funding. And more and more, they’re shaping your administration’s decisions about proper allocation of limited resources. This seminar will show you will show how to make sure your assessments are producing valid, meaningful measures of student success.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
A Useful Strategy for Assessing Class Participation
One of the changes we have seen in academia in the last 30 years or so is the shift from lecture-based classes to courses that encourage a student-centered approach. Few instructors would quibble with the notion that promoting active participation helps students to think critically and to argue more effectively. However, even the most savvy instructors are still confounded about how to best evaluate participation, particularly when it is graded along with more traditional assessment measures, such as essays, exams, and oral presentations…
