Building Skills
Authentic Assessment | Formative | Summative | Interactive
Assessments of student learning are informed by the course or learning outcomes created at the beginning of the design and development process. The Learning Design team guides the creation or adaptation of authentic formative and summative assessments that show if students have successfully met the course learning outcomes. Formative assessments are most often aligned to lesson-level learning outcomes (which are aligned to the broad course outcomes) and may include low-stakes assignments such as weekly quizzes or reflections, self-checks, or more interactive options such as video check-ins, annotations, group mini-presentations. Summative assessments aim to reflect the broader course outcomes and reflect authentic yet often flexible applications of learning. They might include the creation of artifacts or fuller portfolios, video lab or other skill-based demonstrations, online group presentations, gallery walks, debates, role-playing, and oral presentations, as well as more traditional assignments such as research papers, journals, lab reports, essays.
The Learning Design team offers guidance in the creation of these assessments using the course map and course learning outcomes as the guides.