Choosing Assessments that Align with your Objectives (Summer Course Design Series #4)

Student assessments (quizzes, exams, papers, and much more) can serve many purposes. In this session, we will focus on assessments as evidence of student learning. Viewed through that lens, assessments must be well aligned with your course’s learning objectives. That’s a good thing, for lots of reasons. In this session, you’ll learn about the large range of assessment types that are available to you, so you will be able to develop assessments that will serve as good evidence that your students have learned what you wanted them to.

The summer course design series will introduce you to the notion of backward course design, then use the backward design approach to guide you through the major steps of your course design. Originally created for graduate students about to teach their first full course, the series has proven useful to any instructor designing or redesigning a course, or even wanting to take a fresh look at an old course.

You don't need to attend every workshop in the series to benefit, but the more you attend, the more of a head start you'll have on your course design.