The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark. Summative assessments are often high stakes, …

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 …

What is the difference between assessment and grading? Assessment and grading are not the same. Generally, the goal of grading is to evaluate individual students’ learning and performance. Although …

The assessment can be quantitative or qualitative, formative or summative, standards-based or value added, and used for improvement or for accountability. Ideally, institution-wide goals and objectives …

Your assessment measures students’ ability to compare and critique the arguments of different authors, but your instructional strategies focus entirely on summarizing the arguments of different authors.

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 …

Assessment is simply the process of collecting information about student learning and performance to improve education. At Carnegie Mellon, we believe that for assessment to be meaningful (not bean …

Formative assessments are assessments for learning (e.g., quizzes, rough drafts, proposals). Students and instructors can use the feedback from these assessments to inform their future learning and …

One goal of this website is to share course- and program-level assessments that have been developed here at Carnegie Mellon. We encourage Carnegie Mellon instructors and programs to contribute …

Concept maps include concepts, usually enclosed in circles or boxes, and relationships between concepts, indicated by a connecting line. Words on the line are linking words and specify the …