Alternate assessments and value added assessments.
It's important for students to have concrete, written standards regarding what is expected of them.
Value-added assessments provide a number of insights to how the course content was learned by the students and how it was presented by the instructor.
Rubrics are a great tool for letting students know the expectations required.
I learned different ways to assess student learning.
The course as a whole should be analyzed to investigate methods for course improvement. the purpose of evaluating a course is to determined if the instructional methods and content have been presented in a method appropriate to accomplishing outcomes/objectives.
The students assesment and evaluations are a rich tool to improve a program, course, unit, content or task!
I learned that rubrics are way more useful than just providing consistency.
Rubrics provide the student with information regarding the course requirements.
Value-added evaluation is a strategy that allows measuring instructional effectiveness. It is defined, operationally, as the difference between students' performance on a standardized test