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EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

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INR 2436yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • 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
Readings
  • Meet the experts
  • More reading on the role of assessment
  • Building block for peer review: Assignment about the Utility Formula

Video
  • Animation on the assessment cycle
Reading
  • The assessment cycle overview

Videos
  • 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
Readings
  • 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

Videos
  • What is the role of feedback?
  • What are rubrics and why would you use them?
  • Holistic rubrics
  • Analytic rubrics
  • Single point rubrics
Readings
  • 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

Videos
  • 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?
Readings
  • 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

Videos
  • Introduction to assessment analysis and evaluation
  • How to make the most of peer reviews
  • Assessment analysis
  • Assessment evaluation and future improvements
Readings
  • Checklist for peer review of assessments
  • Psychometric analysis
  • Optional readings on reliability and validity in assessment
  • Final Quiz instruction
  • Thank yous and attributions
Practice Exercise
  • Assessment analysis & evaluation

Instructors

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