The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning.

However, you don’t have to be an assessment expert to employ sound practices to guide your teaching. Here we present the basic concepts you need to know to become more systematic in your …

Assessments should reveal how well students have learned what we want them to learn while instruction ensures that they learn it. For this to occur, assessments, learning objectives, and instructional …

If you’ve ever given an exam, led a discussion, or assigned a project – and used what you discovered about student learning to refine your teaching – you’ve engaged in assessment.

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are a set of specific activities that instructors can use to quickly gauge students’ comprehension. They are generally used to assess students’ understanding …

Using Concept MapsUsing Concept Maps Concept maps are a graphic representation of students’ knowledge. Having students create concept maps can provide you with insights into how they …

The goal of assessment is to improve student learning. Although grading can play a role in assessment, assessment also involves many ungraded measures of student learning (such as concept maps and …

The Eberly Center can help you find, adapt, or create the right tool and determine how to use it to best effect. Remember, too, that process assessments are subjective and students are not always …

Formative and summative assessment types can be similar in structure but have different goals. The main goal of formative assessment is to gather feedback that can be used by the instructor and the …

This assessment strategy provides students with more frequent opportunities for practice and feedback over the course of the semester while offering instructors meaningful data points pertaining to …