3. Assessment & Measurement
Preparing to gather evidence of learning?
The templates, tools, and guidance documents on this page will support your efforts to design and implement high quality assessments.
Designing Assessments
Peter Schilke introduces participants to the process and tools that best support assessment building in this workshop.
In this webinar, explore strategies that enable instructors to design multiple choice questions that assess critical thinking skills. With the accompanying slides.
Equity minded educators take care to assess learners and learning using modes of expression other than written words. Learn more about this and explore strategies to support the shift in this webinar, led by Angela Stockman. With the accompanying slides.
This guidance document unpacks the procedures for creating tests, quizzes, or assignments in Blackboard Ultra.
This guidance document helps users integrate Chalk & Wire in Blackboard.
In this webinar, an introduction to design approaches that enable instructors to create rigorous multiple choice questions. The session is divided into the following components:
Grading
Angela Stockman distinguishes common grading practices from more equitable approaches in this webinar, which is divided into the following segments:
Equitable Practices (10:39)
Outcomes vs. Learning Targets (4:38)
Grading Inside a Formative Assessment Cycle (6:57)
Module vs. Formative Assessments (3:36)
Using Blackboard to Build Equitable Grading Practices (9:17)
Using Mode Rather Than Average to Determine Equitable Grades (5:18)
Providing Feedback on Student Work in Blackboard (4:16)
Angela Stockman shares common problems and potential solutions for instructors who are seeking to make grading more efficient without compromising quality feedback. This session, originally offered to pre-tenure faculty on February 10, 2022, was enriched by the use of the following resources:
Managing Paper Load Presentation (11:39)
Managing Paper Load Slide Deck
Managing Paper Load: Angela's Social Bookmarks/A Growing Collection of Resources and Examples
Project Based Learning
Preparing a Final Project: Beyond the Auto-Graded Exam
This four part series introduces viewers to best practices, design approaches, and technology tools that make for meaningful and manageable project-based learning experiences. You may learn more and access links to recommended tools through the slide deck, and this session also references the Quality Rubrics webinar series offered earlier in the year.
Session 1: Alignment (11:05)
Session 3: Feasibility (7:42)
Session 4: Planning (12:50)
LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor Support
Complete the LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor Micro-Course to deepen your understanding of this tool and consider applications.
Become acquainted with LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor by exploring this slide deck.
Assistant Professor of Applied Behavioral Analysis, Ashley Brehm, sits down with Eric Hill to share her successes with Respondus Monitor. Listen to their conversation.
In this set of three panel discussions, instructors share their experiences and insights using LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor.
Additional Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor Support Resources
Designing High Quality Rubrics
In this tutorial, Angela Stockman shares best practices and strategies for designing high quality rubrics.
Angela Stockman shares strategies that help instructors improve the rubrics they've already designed in this quick tutorial.
In this tutorial, Angela Stockman shares the purpose and function of different rubric types in order to inform instructor's decision making.
Angela Stockman distinguishes checklists from rubrics and shares the assessment types that benefit from the use of each in this tutorial.
In this video tutorial, Angela Stockman distinguishes rubrics as evaluation tools from rubrics that are used for high quality assessment purposes.
Use this checklist to assess the quality of your rubric and set goals for improvement.
These comprehensive set of slides defines best practices for rubric design, improvement, and implementation. Corresponding videos, also found on this page, unpack each topic one at a time.
Assessment Types, Moments, and Purposes
In this workshop, a formative assessment process is demonstrated in how a variety of tools are supported a remote learning environment.
Participants in this workshop explore approaches and tools that enable the design of a high quality mid-term assessment.
In this workshop, participants are coached through the process of designing and deploying final exams in the remote learning world.
In this webinar, Angela Stockman introduces the criteria of high quality assessments before exploring simple and complex shifts that enable instructors to pursue more equitable assessment practices. The session is broken into two components: