We have a wealth of assessment resources in the form of guides and videos. There are resources for alternative assessment strategies applicable across many situations, including for large classes, and online, as well as to preserve academic integrity. Equitable assessment, grading, and feedback practices are also included.
Alternative Assessments for Teaching - This guide outlines a variety of alternative assessment strategies that can be used in, face-to-face, remote, or online teaching. These strategies are organized as low, medium, and high levels of preparation and investment.
Guide to Alternative Assessments - This guide is designed to help instructors design and implement alternative assessments. Each of the 35 alternative assessments highlighted in this document contains a description, the benefits, challenges and solutions, examples, rubrics, and additional resources.
OER as Alternative Assessment Handout - A short handout that acts as a quick guide for using Open Educational Resources (OER) to design alternative assessment.
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Alternative Assessment - Part 2 *PPY credentials required*
Guide to Large Classroom Assessments - This guide is designed to help instructors think about assessment strategies in large classrooms. The guide includes examples of techniques, tips, and tricks, as well as examples of rubrics and alternative assessment ideas.
Assessing student learning in large classes: My experience with alternatives to multiple choice tests
This is a video series created by Merv Mosher, Professor - Teaching Stream, Kinesiology & Health Science.
- Watch Part 1: Why Try Something Different?
- Watch Part 2: What alternate assessment techniques were utilized?
- Watch Part 3: What Grading Scheme was used?
- Watch Part 4: Results?
- Watch Part 5: What did students think? (Results of student survey)
- Watch Part 6: Improvements and Impressions
12 Days of Assessment: Day 5 - Large Classrooms Part 1 *PPY credentials required
12 Days of Assessment: Day 6 - Large Classrooms Part 2 *PPY credentials required
In addition to the alternative assessment and assessment in large classes tabs above,
Open Book Exam Toolkit - This toolkit will help you consider the steps to creating and implementing open book exams.
The Assessment Strategy Exchange included a Keynote by Dr. Laura Winer, McGill University, and a student panel (beginning at 00:57:36). It also included the following:
12 Days of Assessment: Day 7 - Panel Conversation *PPY credentials required
12 Days of Assessment: Day 12 - Student Panel *PPY credentials required
Rubrics Handout - A quick guide for using rubrics, including information and examples on different types of rubrics.
Feedback Handout - This short handout acts as a quick guide for providing feedback in online courses, including information and examples on different types of feedback.
12 Days of Assessment: Day 3 - Grading Techniques *PPY credentials required
12 Days of Assessment: Day 9 - Rubrics *PPY credentials required
12 Days of Assessment: Day 10 - Feedback *PPY credentials required
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