Creating Assessments

January 29, 2025

Assessments with Purpose: Leveraging Test Blueprints to Organize Question Libraries and Optimize Question Pool Selection

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...

Assessment Quick Guides/Creating Assessments/Teaching

January 27, 2025

Evaluating Professionalism in College Courses

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis post was collaboratively written by Nancy Nelson and Joel Beaupré, and revised by Jesslyn Wilkinson and Ada Sharpe Background Many college educators aspire to teach, reinforce, and assess professionalism...

Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Teaching

November 20, 2024

Fostering Positive Conceptions of Assessment Among Students

Reading Time: 8 minutesThe way students perceive assessments can significantly influence their engagement and overall experience in your course (Barnes et al, 2017). For many, assessments are seen...

Creating Assessments/Improving Assessments

October 9, 2024

Understanding your Students’ Conceptions of Assessment for a Better Learning Experience

Reading Time: 7 minutesHave you ever noticed that some students approach assessments with excitement and curiosity, while others seem overwhelmed with anxiety or disengaged? The way students perceive...

Active Learning and Engagement/Assessing Learning/Assessment/Assessment Challenges/Assessment Quick Guides/Creating Assessments/Improving Assessments/Student Focused Assessment

August 9, 2024

Getting Creative with Assessment Design

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhere 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

February 6, 2024

Peer Feedback: Grading Tool versus Assessment Tool

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

Active Learning and Engagement/Assessing Learning/Assessment/Assessment Quick Guides/Collaboration/Creating Assessments/Improving Assessments/Student Focused Assessment

November 27, 2023

The Optional Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Assessments

Reading Time: 3 minutesAre you considering inviting students to use generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in completing an assessment in your course? Is knowledge of genAI required for workplace...

AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Teaching

October 12, 2023

Designing Multiple Choice Questions with EAL in Mind

Reading Time: 4 minutesA Multiple-Choice Question (MCQ) item consists of a problem, known as the stem (written as a question or as a partial sentence that requires completion), and a...

Creating Assessments/Diverse Identities

September 28, 2023

Planning and Facilitating Effective Peer Assessment

Reading Time: 4 minutesPeer assessment, also called peer review, is an instructional approach that allows learners to consider, evaluate, and provide feedback on the level, value, or quality...

Assessment Quick Guides/Creating Assessments

July 2, 2023

An Introduction to Case-Based Learning

Reading Time: 7 minutesThe Case Research Committee (CRC) oversees the Open Access Teaching Case Journal (OATCJ) and the Case Research Development Program (CRDP) at Conestoga College, School of...

Active Learning and Engagement/Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments

March 17, 2023

Best Practices for Open Book Testing

Reading Time: 4 minutesAre you ready to refresh the assessments in your synchronous or online asynchronous courses? As you weigh the option of an open-book test, this teaching tip will provide best practices and considerations for creating the most effective open-book assessment possible.

Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching

December 20, 2022

Assessment Types

Reading Time: 6 minutesConestoga provides students with a wide range of assessment types. This tip describes the goals for choosing evaluation types, explains how discrete assessments fall within...

Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Lesson and Course Planning

November 23, 2022

Oral Assessments: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Considerations

Reading Time: 6 minutesThis tip discusses factors to consider when deciding whether to add an oral exam as a course assessment.

Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching

April 14, 2022

Writing Assignment Descriptions

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEvaluation is a key part of teaching. But, when it comes to assignments, what information should you include? How much information is too much? And...

Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides/Creating Assessments/Teaching

November 24, 2021

Supporting Marked Group Writing Assignments

Reading Time: 6 minutesPrepared by the Teaching & Learning team, this tip provides advice to faculty supporting collaborative group writing assignments, including reports and papers, as well as...

Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Group Work/Improving Assessments/Teaching

July 16, 2021

Review and Reflection and How to Assess Them: Part 2

Reading Time: 3 minutesPart 2 of a two-part teaching tip on assessing review and reflection as skills includes suggestions to help students build their ability to reflect both as learners and as practitioners in their field.

Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

July 16, 2021

Review and Reflection and how to Assess Them: Part 1

Reading Time: 6 minutesIn part 1 of a two-part teaching tip on assessing the professional skills of reflection/review, reflection is defined and explained in a historical context.

Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

April 20, 2021

Creating Clarity in Assignment Descriptions

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis teaching tip was prepared by Conestoga College’s Library Services department. Help your students to understand their assignments and get started sooner by clearly defining...

Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Library Services

May 28, 2020

Assigning, Coaching, and Marking Recorded Presentations

Reading Time: 4 minutesStrategies and suggestions for coaching and grading recorded student presentations.

Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Online Synchronous

February 10, 2020

Preparing for Assessment

Reading Time: 4 minutesAssessment properly understood represents a continuation and culmination of the teaching and learning process. With the course learning outcomes firmly in view, we teach, we...