Tip Sheets: Assessment and feedback

Careful planning and implementation of assignments will help your students produce what you expected.

The goal of assignment sequencing is a stepwise development of students’ skills (i.e., movement from preliminary to higher level critical thinking or…

The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, known as Bloom's Taxonomy (Bloom, Engelhart, Furst, & Krathwohl, 1956) is one of the most recognized…

For more information related to Bloom's Taxonomy, refer to the Bloom's Taxonomy Teaching Tip.

In any endeavour, feedback provides direction for improvement

Crowdmark is an online platform that helps instructors manage and grade assignments and tests quickly and efficiently

A multiple-choice question (MCQ) is composed of two parts: a stem that identifies the question or problem, and a set of alternatives or possible…

Examinations are a very common assessment and evaluation tool in universities and there are many types of examination questions

This game can be played in tutorials, lectures, or study groups outside class, and it helps to produce the lateral thinking, critical negotiations

Whether you’re grading assignments, essays, lab reports, or exams, there are some general strategies that can help you save time and ensure that you’…

One way to change the pace in your classroom is to do a small group activity.

Many types of assignments can be done online. 

Assessment is an integral part of your course design. 

Clearly communicate to students your goals for any assignment or learning activity.

As a learning tool, writing can help students achieve a number of learning goals.

Guidelines when pivoting from an in-person exam to an online exam.

Most university courses have an end-of-term assessment of student learning: a final exam, term test, summative project, or other option

Different assignments make different cognitive demands on students. 

Students should be made aware of assessment before starting the project

Fostering an effective discussion can be challenging in a face-to-face situation and even more so in an online environment.

Hypothesis is an online tool that allows students to collaboratively annotate course readings and other internet resources.

Peer instruction is a form of collaborative learning where students engage with core course concepts and then explain those concepts to one another.

Clickers are stand-alone handheld devices or apps installed on a smartphone or laptop that allow students to respond to an instructor's multiple-…

While we often think of exams as a way to test students’ comprehension of material, exams can serve more than one purpose.

Critical thinking is a high priority outcome of higher education – critical thinking skills are crucial

Critical thinking is a high priority outcome of higher education – critical thinking skills are crucial for independent thinking and problem solving…

We are continually receiving and giving feedback. 

Writing can be a powerful learning tool. 

method of assessing concept maps, proposed by Novak and Gowin, is based on the components and structure of the map

Rubrics can be excellent tools to use when assessing students’ work for several reasons.

Including well-designed library-based assignments in your courses can help build students’ research and thinking skills.

All instructors want to assess fairly, but doing so can sometimes require extra effort, especially when a large number of students are being graded…

Types of Assignments and Tests

Peer review, also called peer editing, peer feedback, and formative peer assessment, allows students to provide and receive feedback on an assignment…

Turnitin is a text-matching tool for encouraging academic integrity

As learning tools, writing exercises are valuable because they help students think critically about course material while encouraging them to grasp,…