6 Recommendations are tagged with "assessment"
Quick tips from the Faculty Teaching Institute about using assessment to improve your classes.
Faculty Teaching Institute, assessment
These are quick tips from the Faculty Teaching Institute for using summative assessments (primarily exams and quizzes) in ways that will assess what you value in student learning while being compassionate, clear, and fair, and facilitating student learning.
Faculty Teaching Institute, summative assessment, exams
These are quick tips from the Faculty Teaching Institute for developing homework and quizzes to learn about student thinking. Homework and quizzes are useful tools for students to practice new concepts and skills and get feedback. In-class formative assessments (Classroom Assessment Techniques, or CATs) give on-the-spot feedback to students and teachers.
Faculty Teaching Institute, formative assessment, homework
Formative assessment is low-stakes, ongoing assessment to monitor students' learning and give them feedback during instruction. Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are classroom activities to quickly gauge student understanding.
Faculty Teaching Institute, formative assessment
Summative assessment is assessment to evaluate student learning at the end of instruction. Summative assessment is often high-stakes.
Faculty Teaching Institute, summative assessment
These quick tips from the Faculty Teaching Institute can be used to improve grading in your classes.
Faculty Teaching Institute, grading, assessment
