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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    yesCoursera

    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

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