Assessment in Higher Education: Professional Development for Teachers
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The Syllabus
Videos
- Perspectives: Why do we assess in higher education?
 - Perspectives: What influence do grades have in assessment systems?
 - Perspectives: How can assessment help in engaging students?
 - Perspectives: Is the quality and reliability of our assessments robust enough to make high stake decisions?
 - Perspectives: Is group assessment a desirable option in higher education?
 - The usability of assessment: Using the utility formula to select a method of assessment
 - The usability of assessment: A visualisation of the utility formula
 
Readings
- Meet the experts
 - More reading on the role of assessment
 - Building block for peer review: Assignment about the Utility Formula
 
Video
- Animation on the assessment cycle
 
Reading
- The assessment cycle overview
 
Videos
- Introduction to the assessment plan
 - Animation on constructive alignment
 - Animation on how to write your own assessment plan
 - Animation on how to create an assessment matrix
 - Perspectives: How do students prepare for an assessment?
 - Perspectives: Could students be involved in your assessments?
 - Perspectives: Teachers and their preferences for methods of assessment
 - Perspectives: Students and their preferences for methods of assessment
 - Perspectives: What kind of methods do teachers use to assess students?
 - Perspectives: Best practices according to teachers and students
 - Perspectives: Students on easy assessments and time consuming assessments
 - Perspectives: Experiences of teachers in how they select the methods of assessment for their courses
 
Readings
- Constructive alignment overview
 - Optional reading: Constructive alignment - John Biggs
 - Video: on writing learning objectives
 - Manual on how to write learning objectives
 - Optional reading: Methods of assessment A-Z
 - Activity: Match methods of assessments with their cognitive domain following Bloom’s Taxonomy
 - Optional reading: In-class activities and assessment for the flipped classroom
 - Assessment plan overview
 - Building block for peer review: Connect your learning objectives to the methods of assessment for your course
 - Assessment matrix overview
 - Building block for peer review: Create your own assessment matrix
 - Meet the teachers of Erasmus University Rotterdam
 
Videos
- What is the role of feedback?
 - What are rubrics and why would you use them?
 - Holistic rubrics
 - Analytic rubrics
 - Single point rubrics
 
Readings
- Building block for peer review: Create your own feedback plan for your course
 - How to make a rubric
 - A rubric for rubrics
 - Websites with examples of rubrics
 
Videos
- Introduction to assessment construction
 - Perspectives: Teachers and their experiences with multiple choice and essay questions
 - Perspectives: Multiple choice Q&A
 - Introduction to constructing multiple choice questions
 - How to construct the stem of a multiple choice question?
 - How to construct the answer alternatives of a multiple choice question?
 - Perspectives: Open ended questions Q&A
 - How to construct open ended and essay questions?
 - Perspectives: Group work Q&A
 - How to construct group work?
 
Readings
- Further reading on assessment construction
 - Checklist for multiple choice questions
 - Further reading on multiple choice questions
 - Checklist for open ended questions
 - Preparing a correction model
 - Further reading on open ended questions
 - Checklist for group work
 - Further reading on group work
 
Videos
- Introduction to assessment analysis and evaluation
 - How to make the most of peer reviews
 - Assessment analysis
 - Assessment evaluation and future improvements
 
Readings
- Checklist for peer review of assessments
 - Psychometric analysis
 - Optional readings on reliability and validity in assessment
 - Final Quiz instruction
 - Thank yous and attributions
 
Practice Exercise
- Assessment analysis & evaluation
 
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