

Erasmus University Rotterdam - Assessment in Higher Education: Professional Development for Teachers
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Assessment in Higher Education: Professional Development for Teachers at Coursera Overview
Duration | 18 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course |
Credential | Certificate |
Assessment in Higher Education: Professional Development for Teachers at Coursera Highlights
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- Intermediate Level
- Approx. 18 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
Assessment in Higher Education: Professional Development for Teachers at Coursera Course details
- Are you a teacher in higher education wanting to get the best out of your students and assessments? Then on behalf of Risbo, Erasmus University Rotterdam, we would like to welcome you to this MOOC on Assessment in Higher Education. In this MOOC we will guide you through the different phases of preparing, creating and evaluating the assessments in your course.
- After participating in this MOOC, you will be able to:
- 1. Design an assessment that is constructively aligned (content, level, methods) with the course objectives and activities
- 2. Apply the quality criteria with respect to validity, reliability and transparency for construction of assessments and assessment items
- 3. Analyze the assessment output and results, assess the quality of the assessment and make decisions about students? grades accordingly
- 4. Formulate future improvements for an assessment
- For the assignments, you will be working with your own teaching materials. For example you will create your own assessment plan for your course. Next to that you will become part of a learning community with teachers from all over the world.
- We are offering you instructional videos, interviews, animations and checklists. In addition to these, there will be course activities, such as assessments, and discussion prompts. By participating in this MOOC, you will find answers to the following questions:
- ? What is the role of assessment?
- ? How can you select the right methods of assessment for your course?
- ? What is constructive alignment?
- ? How can an assessment plan and matrix help you in the construction of assessments?
- ? Is it possible to make an absolute reliable and valid assessment?
- ? How can the formulation of good assessment questions have an impact on that?
- ? What is the role of feedback?
- ? How can rubrics help with providing feedback?
- ? What are the things to consider when performing an exam or item analysis? What aspects should you look out for?
- ? How do you draw conclusions from an exam analysis and make plans for future improvements?
- ? If good students fail on certain questions, what does this say about the question? or about your teaching?
- Are you ready for enhancing your teaching skills? Then take this journey with us.
Assessment in Higher Education: Professional Development for Teachers at Coursera Curriculum
The role of assessment in higher education
Perspectives: Why do we assess in higher education?
Perspectives: What influence do grades have in assessment systems?
Perspectives: How can assessment help in engaging students?
Perspectives: Is the quality and reliability of our assessments robust enough to make high stake decisions?
Perspectives: Is group assessment a desirable option in higher education?
The usability of assessment: Using the utility formula to select a method of assessment
The usability of assessment: A visualisation of the utility formula
Meet the experts
More reading on the role of assessment
Building block for peer review: Assignment about the Utility Formula
Animation on the assessment cycle
The assessment cycle overview
The Assessment Plan
Introduction to the assessment plan
Animation on constructive alignment
Animation on how to write your own assessment plan
Animation on how to create an assessment matrix
Perspectives: How do students prepare for an assessment?
Perspectives: Could students be involved in your assessments?
Perspectives: Teachers and their preferences for methods of assessment
Perspectives: Students and their preferences for methods of assessment
Perspectives: What kind of methods do teachers use to assess students?
Perspectives: Best practices according to teachers and students
Perspectives: Students on easy assessments and time consuming assessments
Perspectives: Experiences of teachers in how they select the methods of assessment for their courses
Constructive alignment overview
Optional reading: Constructive alignment - John Biggs
Video: on writing learning objectives
Manual on how to write learning objectives
Optional reading: Methods of assessment A-Z
Activity: Match methods of assessments with their cognitive domain following Bloom?s Taxonomy
Optional reading: In-class activities and assessment for the flipped classroom
Assessment plan overview
Building block for peer review: Connect your learning objectives to the methods of assessment for your course
Assessment matrix overview
Building block for peer review: Create your own assessment matrix
Meet the teachers of Erasmus University Rotterdam
Feedback & grading design
What is the role of feedback?
What are rubrics and why would you use them?
Holistic rubrics
Analytic rubrics
Single point rubrics
Building block for peer review: Create your own feedback plan for your course
How to make a rubric
A rubric for rubrics
Websites with examples of rubrics
Assessment construction
Introduction to assessment construction
Perspectives: Teachers and their experiences with multiple choice and essay questions
Perspectives: Multiple choice Q&A
Introduction to constructing multiple choice questions
How to construct the stem of a multiple choice question?
How to construct the answer alternatives of a multiple choice question?
Perspectives: Open ended questions Q&A
How to construct open ended and essay questions?
Perspectives: Group work Q&A
How to construct group work?
Further reading on assessment construction
Checklist for multiple choice questions
Further reading on multiple choice questions
Checklist for open ended questions
Preparing a correction model
Further reading on open ended questions
Checklist for group work
Further reading on group work
Assessment Analysis and Evaluation
Introduction to assessment analysis and evaluation
How to make the most of peer reviews
Assessment analysis
Assessment evaluation and future improvements
Checklist for peer review of assessments
Psychometric analysis
Optional readings on reliability and validity in assessment
Final Quiz instruction
Thank yous and attributions
Assessment analysis & evaluation
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