The Higher Learning Commission (UW’s accrediting body) offers this definition of assessment: “Effective assessment is best understood as a strategy for understanding, confirming, and improving student ...

Assessment a process for the collection and analysis of evidence about the achievement of student learning outcomes for the purposes of improvement and to determine or demonstrate the effectiveness of ...

If students frame assessments in terms of stress, not learning, this raises the question: are universities evaluating ...

These may take the form traditional assessments such as exams, or quizzes, but may also be part of learning activities such as group projects or presentations. While assessments may take many forms, ...

It may include multiple levels of learning outcomes, demonstrate redundancies, gaps, and misalignments in content, measures of assessment, and/or data collected. Statements of what we want students to ...