Student Focused Assessment

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 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

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...

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

January 30, 2024

Leveraging Peer Feedback as a Learning Tool

Reading Time: 4 minutes Peer feedback or review refers to a process where students review and make judgements about the work of their peers (Nicole et al., 2014). During...

Assessing Learning/Improving Assessments/Student Focused Assessment

July 7, 2023

Advising Students on Detection Software Used in Assessments

Reading Time: 3 minutes This guide is provided to you by Teaching and Learning and the Privacy Office at Conestoga. Messaging to Students on Detection Software Used in Assessments...

AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides/Student Focused Assessment

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 5, 2022

Adding Video or Audio Feedback to Assignments

Reading Time: 5 minutes On average, students will likely review the feedback you offer in your assignments as many as three times (Anson et al., 2016). Yet, to many...

Assessing Learning/eConestoga/Rubrics and Marking/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching/Tech For Teaching

November 23, 2022

Oral Assessments: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Considerations

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