Designing the Assessment Package for Your Course

Principles of Good Practice for Student Assessment
Six-Step Process for Designing An Assessment Package
An Excellent Resource For Designing Online Assessment Tools
What To Do About Reliability and Validity !!!!
Comparing Assessment Tools: A Matrix to Explore

Principles of Good Practice for Student Assessment

Everyone is talking about principles of good practice for assessing students from the American Association for Higher Education.
http://www.cord.edu/dept/assessment/nineprin.pdf
(article was formerly found on this web site: http://www.aahe.org/assessment/principl.htm)

Before you begin designing your assessment package for your course, you may want to consult them too!!

Six-Step Process for Designing An Assessment Package

If you are designing a new course, or revising the assessment package for a new course, you may find this six step process helpful.

Six Steps For Developing an Evaluation Plan

An Excellent Resource For Designing Online Assessment Tools

The recent book edited by Patricia Comeaux, Assessing Online Learning(2005) provides an excellent introduction to assessing online learning. The second article by Mahnaz Moallem, entitled  "Designing and Managing Student Assessment in an Online Learning Environment" is particularly good. At 128 pages, the entire book is a quick, valuable read and should be in our library soon.

What To Do About Reliability and Validity !!!!

Review what reliability and validity means with respect to evaluation, as well as some tips for improving both reliability and validity in your assessment instruments.

Comparing Assessment Tools: A Matrix to Explore

Are you thinking about developing new test items and need some tips for test construction? Would you like to create new performance-based assessments for your students? Would you like to review the advantages and disadvantages of different types of assessments?

If so, you may wish to spend some time exploring this matrix of assessment possibilities.

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