The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark. Summative assessments are often …

What is the difference between assessment and grading? Assessment and grading are not the same. Generally, the goal of grading is to evaluate individual students’ learning and …

However, you don’t have to be an assessment expert to employ sound practices to guide your teaching. Here we present the basic concepts you need to know to become more systematic …

The assessment can be quantitative or qualitative, formative or summative, standards-based or value added, and used for improvement or for accountability. Ideally, institution-wide goals and …

Your assessment measures students’ ability to compare and critique the arguments of different authors, but your instructional strategies focus entirely on summarizing the arguments of …

Formative and summative assessment types can be similar in structure but have different goals. The main goal of formative assessment is to gather feedback that can be used by the …

Assessment is simply the process of collecting information about student learning and performance to improve education. At Carnegie Mellon, we believe that for assessment to be …

Formative assessments are assessments for learning (e.g., quizzes, rough drafts, proposals). Students and instructors can use the feedback from these assessments to inform their future …

A Checklist for Designing Effective Online/Hybrid Courses As you work on developing your remote or hybrid course, either by translating from a traditional course or for iterative re …

One goal of this website is to share course- and program-level assessments that have been developed here at Carnegie Mellon. We encourage Carnegie Mellon instructors and programs …