For each course, the University requires a statement of the overall assessment strategy and the assessment schedule for each year group. The course team and wider stakeholders will contribute to the ...

Planning and aligning your assessments with your learning outcomes is central to effective assessment design and is key to good course design. In this way, you ensure that your assessment tasks match ...

Many educators have never heard of formative assessment or aren’t easily convinced that self- and peer-assessment strategies have a place in higher education. Instructional designers have a unique ...

This post is by Elizabeth Leisy Stosich, Research and Policy Fellow at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE). There is widespread agreement that test-based accountability ...

Does anyone really know the definition of a "good" assessment? Does such a thing even exist? The second question has no clear answer (which means it's not likely to show up on an assessment any time ...

Teaching large classes comes with unique challenges, especially when it comes to effective learning assessments. The best learner-centered approaches can feel daunting in a 200-person class—can you ...

Signature assignments are an embedded assessment strategy in which a common assignment is given to students in several different courses, sections, or co-curricular experiences. This assignment should ...

With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

Balancing the needs of students, faculty and institutions when designing online courses Ask the experts: What faculty need to know when designing online courses Online course design and delivery ...

This course examines the purpose, processes and practices of strategic planning and execution in organisations. Contemporary strategic challenges are examined. The fourth number of the course code ...