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Assessment Strategies

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Assessment is the way we find evidence of student learning. It serves as a check on student knowledge of content, but also of their ability to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate subject matter. It’s a point of feedback for students to see their own progress, and helps to ensure that students can cite evidence when working with content.

Featured resources:

* Authentic Assessment – A Primer – A small guide and examples on using realistic situations that require students to use critical thinking skills.

* Assessing Student Learning – From Vanderbilt University, a thorough explainer on accessibility and many of its forms.

Student Collaboration in the Online Classroom

Collaboration in the online classroom can take many forms, but often will involve group work to teach one another while the instructor can serve as the “guide on the side”.

Plickers

Have you ever wanted to assess your students’ knowledge without the need for multiple mobile devices, clickers, or even a quick quiz?

Assessment strategies - A notebook with broken pencil

Ways to Prevent Issues of Academic Integrity

As the academic year moves forward it’s important to review ways to prevent issues of academic integrity in the classroom. These issues can be varied, but commonly include plagiarism and cheating on assessments.

Authentic Assessment – A Primer

A primer on authentic assessment and its application of learning to the real world.

Plagiarism – A Teachable Moment with VeriCite

Plagiarism isn’t always intentional, so why treat it as such? Use it as a teachable moment, and have some help from VeriCite.