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What is Assessment?
Definition: Assessment determines whether learning is taking place, what learning took place, and what learning still needs to take place.
Assessment vs. Evaluation: Check our Resources page
There is a wide range of assessment principles. To know more details about each principle, please go to the 'useful resources' page.
Assessment activities act like GPS instructions, as they tell us where we are, where we went wrong, how to get back on the correct route and where we have to go to reach our learning destination (feedback, feedforward & feed up).
Double duty (multipurpose) of assessment - Different stakeholders are involved or affected, when it comes to student assessments.
Double duty (multipurpose) of assessment - Different stakeholders are involved or affected, when it comes to student assessments.
The value of feedback in the assessment design cycle
The value of feedback in the assessment design cycle
Why assess?
Purposes of Assessment in Learning
Assessment of learning
Looking at assessment information at the end of the teaching and learning process to rank students' achievement levels against a standard (summative assessment).
Assessment for learning
Occurs when teachers use inferences about student progress to inform their teaching (formative assessment).
Assessment as learning
Occurs when students reflect on and monitor their progress to inform their future learning goals (formative assessment).
Transforming Assessment for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity
Assessments embracing Social Justice (McArthur 2018):
Access
Diversity
Equity
Participate
Human rights
What to Assess?
Disciplinary knowledge and skills
Assessment should be aligned with learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and attitudes). How can we use Biggs's concept of constructive alignment to link the 'what' and the 'how' of assessment?
Graduate Attributes (Competencies)
Employability is an individual’s ability to gain and maintain employment. To do so, students need the necessary knowledge when they graduate, but even more important, also the right skills and competencies (graduate attributes). Assessment should not just focus on the disciplinary knowledge, but on these skills and competencies as well.
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