Assessing student learning: a common sense guide

What is assessment?

The many settings for student learning and assessment

What are effective assessment practices?

Learning goals : articulating what you most want students to learn

Designing curricula to help students learn what's important

How will your evidence of student learning be used?

Planning assessments in academic programs

Planning assessments in general education, co-curricula, and other settings

Guiding and coordinating assessment efforts

Helping everyone learn what to do

Supporting assessment efforts

Keeping assessment cost-effective

Collaborating on assessment

aluing assessment and the people who contribute

Designing rubrics to plan and assess assignments

Creating effective assignments

Writing multiple-choice and other objective tests

Assembling evidence of student learning into portfolios

Selecting published instruments

Other assessment tools

Assessing the hard-to-assess

Setting meaningful standards and targets

Summarizing and storing evidence of student learning

Analyzing evidence of student learning

Sharing evidence of student learning

Using evidence of student learning to inform important decisions