Assessment & Evaluation

Assessment & Evaluation

While the terms ‘assessment’ and ‘evaluation’ are sometimes used interchangeably, they are not the same. Explore these two websites to lend precision to your definitions.

Assessment – website

http://www.edtech.vt.edu/edtech/id/assess/assess.html

Evaluation – website

http://www.edtech.vt.edu/edtech/id/eval/eval.html

This online video from the Center for Excellence in Teaching at USC provides a foundation for thinking about assessment. As you’re watching, consider how these ideas are, or might be, implemented in your courses.

Assessment Overview - video

http://www.usc.edu/programs/cet/usc/programs/video/2005/assessment.html

Do the 9 Principles in the following website match the ideas presented in the video? Are some principles only relevant in certain learning environments?

9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning - website

http://www.iuk.edu/~koctla/assessment/9principles.shtml

Bill McComas from USC has some interesting ideas about extending the range of assessment tools we employ based on a careful analysis of what it is we’re really trying to determine.

Linking Objectives & Assessment - video

http://www.usc.edu/programs/cet/usc/programs/video/2003/assessment.html

Explore this site from York University for some more practical advice on assessment design (like How to Write Tests from the University of Lethbridge or Improving Multiple Choice Tests from Kansas State)

Assessing Student Learning – website

http://www.yorku.ca/cst/ideas/assess_students_online.html

Finally, if you’re in a constructivist mood, here’s some interesting advice on the value of having students do some self-assessment. The ability to self-determine whether your learning has been effective is an important skill to transfer to the workplace in a knowledge-based economy.

helping students self-assess their learning - website

http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwltc/howto/selfassess.htm