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18 hours

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

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Assessment in Higher Education: Professional Development for Teachers
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  • Intermediate Level
  • Approx. 18 hours to complete
  • English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
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  • 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.
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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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