0 or 3 credits
Fall 2025 Distance Learning Upper Division
This course is designed to help teachers of STEM recognize the link between productive assessment and productive instruction, using the STEM education standards for teacher competence in educational assessment. This course is designed to help teachers meet those professional standards and understand the public pressure as well as instructional need for effective formative and summative assessment.
Learning Outcomes1Choose appropriate assessment methods.
2Develop appropriate assessment methods.
3Administer scoring and interpreting assessment results.
4Use assessment results to make decisions about individual students, plan teaching and develop curriculum.
5Communicate assessment results to students, parents, and other educators.
6Recognize inappropriate assessment methods and uses of assessment information.
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.