Tag: assessment


Dr. Elizabeth Hall: Use Data Driven Instruction

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  Additional Information Resource Pages Aligned Course Design Assess Students Learning Outcomes Scholarship of Teaching and Learning TLC Medallions Assessment Course Design Paradigms of Education Webinars Marketing Good Teaching or: How to Convince Students to Love Effective Teaching. Dr. Devin Scott. December 2022.  Teaching for Learning: Evidence Based Instructional Strategies. Dr. Claire Major. February 2022.… Read More

Assessment Methods for Graduate Students: Beyond Examinations

This workshop explores methods of assessing student knowledge other than traditional examinations. Workshop attendees will discuss situations in which course and learning outcomes are not well matched with traditional examinations, necessitating the use of alternative assessment methods. Furthermore, participants will begin the process of implementing alternative learning assessments that are fully aligned with their course… Read More

Writing Effective Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQ)

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Author: Amy Hall, EdD Updated January 31, 2023   Multiple-choice questions inclusive of a question/stem, a key/correct answer, and distractors/incorrect answer choices are frequently used in health science education due to efficiency in grading and their frequent inclusion on licensing and board examinations. In addition to these advantages, Brame (2013) asserts that multiple-choice questions can… Read More

Assessing Student Performance

How do we align our assessment strategies with our learning goals? How is it that we know that they have mastered the content we want them to learn in our courses? How do we structure our course to help them successfully master whatever assessment we use? We will discuss these and other questions in this… Read More

Are Your Tests Biased? A Guide for Implementing Inclusive Testing Guidelines in Your Assessments

We often mistakenly assume when writing assessments for our students that our learners are “just like us.” We use terminology, phrases, abbreviations, and pronouns that we prefer and know, that often leave our students confused and sometimes wounded. We review our tests by solely looking at statistics, but should we also be looking at linguistics?… Read More

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  • Christie Cavallo, EdD, Instructor, College of Nursing