Assessment
Ineffective assessments allow students to succeed while not understanding, or fail despite understanding.
Assessment resources:
Authentic Assessments
A true test: toward more authentic and equitable assessment (Grant Wiggins)
Assessment of Learning: Let Me Count the Ways (Oakes and Lipton)
Performance-based Assessments (Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe)
Designing Authentic Assessments [slides] (Paul Oberto and Dana Kooista)
Digging Into Authentic Assessment [slides] (Kate Kinney Grossman)
Authentic Assessment: Beyond the Buzzword and into the Classroom (Rieneke Zessoules and Howard Gardner)
Assessment: Measuring What Matters (Oakes and Lipton)
Rigor
When ‘Rigor’ Targets Disabled Students (Katie Rose Guest Pryal)
Are you being rigorous or just intolerant? How to promote mental health in the college classroom (Catherine Savini)
Classroom assessment/ activity techniques (Kimberly Tanner)
Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment (Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam)
The Rubric
Engendering competence (Raymond Wlodkowski and Margery Ginsberg)
Authentic tasks and rubrics: going beyond traditional assessments in college teaching (Kathleen Montgomery)
Projects
Gold Standard Project-Based Learning: Essential Project Design Elements (Buck Institute for Education)
Team-based learning as cooperative learning (Ilene Alexander)
Creating Transparent Assignments (UNevada)