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Newsletter: Spring 2004
Making the Most of Online Assessment
by: Rhonda SpearmanThe American Association of Higher Education lists “9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning” (http://www.aahe.org/principl.htm link checked and inactive as of 1/2/08). They are:
1. The assessment of student learning begins with educational values.
2. Assessment is most effective when it reflects an understanding of learning as multidimensional, integrated, and revealed in performance over time.
3. Assessment works best when the programs it seeks to improve have clear, explicitly stated purposes.
4. Assessment requires attention to outcomes but also and equally to the experiences that lead to those outcomes.
5. Assessment works best when it is ongoing not episodic.
6. Assessment fosters wider improvement when representatives from across the educational community are involved.
7. Assessment makes a difference when it begins with issues of use and illuminates questions that people really care about.
8. Assessment is most likely to lead to improvement when it is part of a larger set of conditions that promote change.
9. Through assessment, educators meet responsibilities to students and to the public.
Main Topic
Assess for SuccessRead More
Extended Communications:
Reaching Students Before and After the SemesterMaking the Most of Online Assessment
Mystery of the Rubric … Solved
How do I grade this? Designing rubrics for multimedia projects
Honesty in Testing
Project SET 2004
C3 2004 Call for Proposals
Assessment … Evaluation …
The CAT is out of the bag!
ShareIT (Sharing Ideas and
Technology for Teaching)
Students and faculty are getting STARTed
in January 2004!
2004 Teaching With Technology Grants Awarded
Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning”