Authentic assessment seeks to replicate workplace or professional performance through observable tasks and processes that demonstrate knowledge and skills. This teaching tip explores the benefits of authentic assessment, design considerations, and implementation examples.
Assessment and Feedback
This resource helps instructors evaluate and redesign assessments by focusing on six principles: validity, transparency, feasibility, reliability, fairness, and educational impact, ensuring assessments align with learning outcomes and support meaningful student learning.
An alphabetical list of common learning and assessment activities, with practical ideas for those who wish to mitigateinappropriate use of GenAI tools or incorporate GenAI tools in student learning.
This tip outlines strategies for designing and implementing oral assessments that promote deeper insight into student learning.
This tip sheet outlines strategies for redesigning unsupervised assessments in the age of GenAI, emphasizing the need to create meaningful, engaging tasks that encourage authentic student learning.
As Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) reshapes higher education, instructors must rethink their assessment approaches. This teaching tip presents a modified AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) as a framework for integrating GenAI into assessment design.
Exam wrappers are activities that “wrap around” an exam to enhance students' meta-cognition and their reflection on their assessments.
Support students in making the most of your feedback with strategies that build feedback literacy, promote reflection, and encourage active engagement in the learning process.
As learning tools, writing exercises are valuable because they help students think critically about course material while encouraging them to grasp, organize, and integrate prior knowledge with new concepts.
Translate Bloom’s Taxonomy into practical classroom strategies with examples of learning activities and assessments aligned to each level of the hierarchy.