Creating Assessments

November 20, 2024

Fostering Positive Conceptions of Assessment Among Students

Reading Time: 8 minutes The 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 minutes Have 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 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

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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November 27, 2023

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

Reading Time: 3 minutes Are 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 minutes A 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 minutes Peer 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 minutes The 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 minutes Are 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 minutes Conestoga provides students with a wide range of assessment types. This tip describes the goals for choosing evaluation types, explains how discrete assessments fall within...

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