Contact North: Five Guiding Principles are Changing how Faculty and Instructors Approach Assessment

 
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Assessment is crucial to learning. Providing feedback, nudging learners to improve and suggesting additional work and activities that could strengthen their learning is key to assessment for learning. Grading against clear rubrics that reflect the objectives of the course and intentions of the program of study is key to the assessment of learning and to the task of quality assurance.

What will assessment look like in the future?

How might assessment change, given:

  • The emergence of technology-enabled tools for assessment;

  • New challenges about security and academic integrity; and

  • New ways of delivering learning?

To find the answer to these questions and more, read: How Assessment is Changing in The Digital Age: Five Guiding Principles.