Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Designing Assessments to Measure Student Outcomes
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)
This short online course explored the design of valid, reliable and fair assessment instruments to measure the outcome of teaching programs, with particular focus on the effective use of rubrics and surveys. The course combined theory and practice, and encouraged participants to share work and discuss topics together.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Linda McKee
Senior Director for Quality Support Initiatives
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Summarise the importance of validity, reliability, and fairness in building quality assessments.
- Discuss the role of rubrics within quality assessments.
- Design effective rubrics for use in evaluating performance.
- Discuss the role of surveys within quality assessments.
- Design effective surveys for use with a selected audience.
Syllabus
Week 1 – Building quality assessments
- The importance of validity, reliability and fairness in developing assessments
- National assessment instruments in use worldwide
- Developing local assessments
- The impact of technology on measurement
Week 2 – Rubrics
- The role of rubrics in assessment
- How to design effective rubrics to evaluate performance
- How to test rubric calibration
Week 3 – Surveys
- The role of surveys in assessment
- The steps in writing surveys
- How to design effective surveys for use with a selected audience
Issued on 16th February 2017
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