Creating effective assessment

What drives instruction and assessment in the context of student mastery of knowledge and skill?

•  Item Types

• Scoring

•  Outcomes

What does "Backwards Design" refer to in the context of assessment development?

• Designing assessments with action verbs and noun statements

  
  

• Starting with the assessment and then developing learning outcomes

  
  

• Designing assessments based on outcomes prior to developing instructional activities

  
  

1. Which assessment item type best evaluates a student's ability to recall, understand, and apply factual and procedural knowledge?

• Selected Response

•  Constructed Response

• Performance

Which assessment item type best assesses complex tasks developed over time?

•  Selected Response

•  Essay Response

• Performance

Which assessment item type assesses the student's ability to evaluate and synthesize information?

• Selected Response

•  Constructed Response

• Scoring