Posts Tagged ‘assessment tools’
June 18 - Self-Assessment Does Not Necessarily Mean Self-Grading
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Educational Assessment
Most faculty judiciously avoid having students self-assess because it seems hopelessly naïve to imagine them being able to look at anything beyond the desired grade. Even so, the ability to self-assess skills and completed work is important. Moreover, it is an ability acquired with practice and developed with feedback. It seems like the kind of skill that should be addressed in college. And perhaps there is a way.
November 5 - Learning Communities: Key Elements for Sustainability
By: Barbara Leigh Smith in Learning Communities
Tuesday’s post discussed the goals and core practices of effective learning communities. Today we outline elements of sustainable learning communities as well as some of the challenges of learning community development.
May 1 - Assessing Online Learning: Strategies, Challenges and Opportunities
By: Mary Bart in Educational Assessment, Free Reports, Online Education
If you want insight into how to assess online learning at the course, program, and institutional levels, you’ll want to download this new special report that will help you create more effective online assessment exercises and strategies.
January 12 - Choosing a Published Instrument to Assess Student Learning: 2008
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Presented by Linda Suskie, vice president of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, this seminar teaches you what questions you need to ask to determine whether published instruments should be part of your assessment program, and if so, which ones.
Linda is an internationally recognized speaker, writer, workshop facilitator, and consultant on a broad variety of higher education assessment topics. Her latest book is the second edition of Assessment of Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide (Jossey-Bass). Among her other publications are Assessment to Promote Deep Learning (Stylus) and Questionnaire Survey Research: What Works (Association for Institutional Research). She is a Vice President at the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, an accreditor of colleges and universities in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.