wk 3 - Assessment Carnegie Mellon part 2 Types of Assessments

Carnegie Mellon -- Types of Assessments

Types of Assessment Activities

• There are many different types of activities that can be used to assess students’ proficiency on a given learning objective.
• The same activity can be used to assess different objectives.

Assessment Recommendation

• To ensure more accurate assessment of student proficiencies, it is recommended that you use different kinds of activities so that students have multiple ways to practice and demonstrate their knowledge and skills.

What type of Assessment?

• When deciding on what kind of assessment activities to use, it is helpful to keep in mind the following questions:
• What will the student’s work on the activity (multiple choice answers, essays, project, presentation, etc) tell me about their level of competence on the targeted learning objectives
• How will my assessment of their work help guide students’ practice and improve the quality of their work?
• How will the assessment outcomes for the class guide my teaching practice?