Module 2: Assessment Design
Welcome to Module 2: Assessment Design
Agenda
Within this module, you will be asked to watch tutorials and read articles on creating assessments for your course. This module discusses three kinds of assessment: diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment, providing digital options for conducting these types of assessment in an online or hybrid course. Throughout this module, you will be asked to conceptualize different kinds of assessments that align with the learning objectives you outlined for module 1 of your course.
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
Incorporate assessments that measure the achievement of the stated learning objectives or competencies.
Articulate specific and descriptive criteria for the evaluation of learners’ work, clearly connected to the course grading policy.
Incorporate assessments that are sequenced, varied, and suited to the level of the course.
Provide learners with multiple opportunities to track their learning progress with timely feedback.
As you progress throughout this module, think specifically about the role of formative versus summative assessment in your course.
WATCH: Assessment Design Introduction
This 4 minute video outlines three different types of assessments that can be used in your online or hybrid course: diagnostic, formative, and summative.
Backward Design _ Derek Bok Center, Harvard University.pdfREAD: Backward Design from Derek BOK Center at Harvard University
This article explains Backward Design. Backward Design is a process of mapping out your course to plan assessments that align to learning objectives first, and then planning instruction that aligns with the assessments.
WATCH: Backward Design or Designing Assignments from Learning Objectives
In this 10 minute video, Grant Wiggins, creator of Backward Design discusses the process of backward design.
WATCH: Formative Assessment
This 5 minute video defines formative assessment and outlines some ways you can incorporate digital formative assessments to evaluate student learning throughout your course to inform instruction.
To explore the digital tools discussed in this tutorial, click on the Assessment Tools button in the left menu of this course or at the bottom of this page.
PRACTICE: Formative Assessment PADLET
Use this Padlet wall to share formative assessment strategies you might be able to use in your course. This will be a collective document where new online or hybrid instructors can go to share and to get ideas.
WATCH: Summative Assessment
This 6 minute video defines summative assessment and outlines tips for planning summative assessments to evaluate student mastery of learning objectives.
OPTIONAL: Backward Design Planning Sheet
Use this optional planning guide from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching to plan a summative assessment for your course in depth.
Backward-Design-Template-with-Descriptions.docxCOMPLETE: Mapping out Assessments for Module 1
Map out your assessments for module 1 of your course in the HPU Online Course Map Template.. If you have not already made a copy of the template, to make an editable copy of the template: open the document, ensure you are signed in to Google, select file, then make a copy.
