Assessing Learning

August 29, 2024

Giving Student Feedback Using an Inquiry Approach

Reading Time: 4 minutes Students rely on feedback – whether qualitative, quantitative, or both; from peers, from you, or both – to understand how they performed on an assessment...

Assessing Learning/Giving Feedback/Student Focused Assessment

August 9, 2024

Getting Creative with Assessment Design

Reading Time: 3 minutes Where you find yourself Are you building an assignment from the ground up while creating or revising a course outline? Or perhaps you’re looking to...

Creating Assessments/Improving Assessments/Student Focused Assessment

June 24, 2024

Planning for Post-Assessments: So…What did they Learn?

Reading Time: 4 minutes “It’s Not What We Teach; It’s What They Learn” – Alfie Kohn Wondering what students have learned in the lesson you’ve just delivered? Have students...

Assessing Learning/Giving Feedback/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

June 12, 2024

Practicing Student-Centered Assessments in Contemporary Classrooms

Reading Time: 4 minutes Contemporary classroom assessment emphasizes ongoing feedback, student involvement, and diverse assessment methods to enhance learning outcomes. It reflects a shift from traditional testing and grading...

Assessing Learning/Student Focused Assessment

June 5, 2024

Designing and Implementing Socio-culturally Responsive and Equitable Classroom Assessments

Reading Time: 5 minutes This post was co-authored by Dr. David Baidoo-Anu and Dr. Monsurat Raji, Assessment of Learning Consultants. Given the increased diversities in our classrooms today, student...

Assessment Quick Guides/Diverse Identities

May 22, 2024

Understanding Socio-Culturally Responsive Assessments

Reading Time: 3 minutes This post was co-authored by Dr. Monsurat Raji and Dr. David Baidoo-Anu, Assessment of Learning Consultants. As postsecondary schools continue to educate a more diverse...

Assessment Quick Guides/Diverse Identities

April 8, 2024

In-Person Proctoring How-To’s

Reading Time: 4 minutes In-class proctored tests and exams offer the opportunity to measure student learning in the moment, under observation. These types of assessments can also present you...

Academic Integrity/Assessing Learning/Assessment Challenges/In-person

April 1, 2024

Uses of Student Work: What You Can and Cannot Do

Reading Time: 2 minutes Students have intellectual rights under Canadian copyright law to the work they create during their post-secondary education. They also have privacy rights that mean student...

AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning/Student Rights and Responsibilities

February 13, 2024

Leveraging your slide deck, Part 1: Scaffolding assessments for student success

Reading Time: 5 minutes A slide deck can be the focus point of a lesson, presenting key information related to the week’s learning outcomes. A slide deck, however, is...

Active Learning and Engagement/Lesson and Course Planning/Student Focused Assessment

February 6, 2024

Peer Feedback: Grading Tool versus Assessment Tool

Reading Time: 3 minutes Peer feedback is a powerful classroom assessment tool that you can leverage to support students’ learning (Patchan et al, 2015; Yu & Schunn, 2023). Particularly...

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