Overview

The Assessment unit covers different parts of the assessment process, providing strategies for evaluating your students' learning, the instruments you use to evaluate them, and your own teaching effectiveness. Some of these modules contain additional resources for people who want to take an advanced look at assessment, including various assessment theories and formulae.

The unit begins with a general Overview of Assessment before jumping into specifics. This introductory module provides a historical background, a context for evaluation and a brief discussion of various testing elements. The second module, Measuring Student Learning, provides guidelines for preparing tests, conducting them, and analyzing their results. This leads to a module on Grading & Final Assessment, which is the last step in measuring students' learning.

The last two modules provide assessment information that is not directly related to the students' performance. The fourth module, Evaluating Tests, analyzes how effectively different instruments assess students' abilities to meet course objectives. The final module, Assessing Teaching Effectiveness, gives strategies for performing formative evaluation of your own teaching and for making changes to the course in response to the results of that evaluation.