Student Assessment

9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning
Overarching principles to guide the assessment process.

Assessment that Promotes Learning offers some assessment design strategies and examples assessment activities that the author uses in class to measure student learning, and to help determine how students think and come to value certain ways of learning, thinking and knowing.

The Art of Assessment - A comprehensive overview of assessment by Phil Race which discusses the advantages and limitations of the various forms of assessment.

Specific Student Assessment Techniques
This section of a larger online handbook describes a variety of student assessment techniques. They are presented in four major groups: methods that are organizational in nature, methods teachers use for data recording, ongoing student activities where students are assessed as they go about their customary learning activities, and quizzes and tests where students are engaged in test-taking activities.

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