1 to 3 credits
Spring 2026 Lecture Distance Learning Upper Division
Evaluating the impact of instruction on student performance is one of the most important skills for an educator. Effective teachers ask themselves, "How do I know if students are truly learning? Are they meeting educational objectives in the content area?" Using well-chosen assessment approaches, teachers can address these questions. In this course, students will acquire assessment literacy: the ability to gather accurate information about student achievement, and use that information to make instructional decisions that will improve learning. Course activities will focus on assessment tasks relevant to P- 12 classroom settings.
Learning Outcomes1Create a long -term assessment plan.
2Develop constructed-response tasks with scoring rubrics that are clearly written, aligned with content-area performance goals, and free of bias.
3Make reasonable interpretations of classroom and large-scale assessment results for individual learners and use these interpretations to inform instructional plans.
4Provide informative feedback to learners about their assessment results.
Prerequisites
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