Quality Assessment
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Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen designing your asynchronous course using backward design, start by clearly defining the learning outcomes students should achieve each week. Then, determine the most appropriate assessments to evaluate their progress. Your ultimate goal is to ensure [...]
Reading Time: 7 minutesAs faculty members, we all strive to create fair, effective, and meaningful assessments. But once a test is administered and the results are in, we’re often left wondering: Did my test truly measure student learning as [...]
Reading Time: 6 minutesBy Dr. Ada Sharpe, Dr. David Baidoo-Anu, and Dr. Monsurat Raji. Defining scaffolding In education, “scaffolding” refers to the use of assessments and instructional strategies to progressively build students’ capacity in completing a task. A scaffolded [...]
Reading Time: 5 minutesAs educators, we all know how challenging it can be to design or select assessment questions for our courses. Whether it’s for quizzes, mid-terms, or final exams, deciding what content to include, how to format questions, [...]