Assessment is a vital part of the learning process. There are three view of assessment: Assessment OF Learning; Assessment FOR Learning; Assessment AS Learning. Although the summative evaluation in both graduate and undergraduate courses, involves Assessment OF Learning; Diagnostic Assessment (often used at the beginning of a course or new unit) and Formative Assessment (used throughout the teaching process) should include Assessment FOR Learning and Assessment AS Learning.
- Diagnostic Assessment – strategies/tools that help professors/instructors and/or course participants to learn more about other course participants….often used to further inform course development (eg. background knowledge, experience, contexts, research/scholarly interests, why taking the course, skill/knowledge they can contribute to the course, a question they might have).
- Formative Assessment – strategies/tools that help help professors/instructors/students gather evidence of student performance over a period of time to improve student learning.
- Summative Assessment – The use of a task or an activity to measure, record and report on a student’s level of achievement in regards to overall and specific learning expectations.
Diagnostic Assessment
- Getting to Know You
- Use of Video Introductions
- Guided Questions; Photos
Formative Assessment
- Polling
- Kahoot
- Socrative
- Online participation and engagement Rubric
Summative Assessment
- Guided Frameworks
- Major Assignment Peer Review sessions
- Major Paper proposal rubric
- Final Paper rubric
- Other Summative projects?