For example, schedule shorter assessments (worth five to ten percent of the grade) when students are still learning about a topic before larger assessments (worth 20–30 %) when students should have ...

Students like them, too. I conducted a survey of over 1,400 college students in January 2021 and asked, among other things, what types of assessments they find work well in online and remote learning ...

Multiple-Choice Exams Done Right. We admit, multiple-choice exams aren’t our favorite assessment strategy. They take effort to design, and they can be intimidating for students. But if this is your ...

Use rubrics, Likert scale style surveys, the plus-delta exercise, and/or other instruments to guide the group work assessment. Recommendations from multiple sources (Carnegie Mellon, n.d.; Oakley et ...

A moderately difficult test appears to be best for learning, too. That’s because learning is helped when students successfully retrieve information, and it’s harmed when they’re unable to do so.