The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We are removing unnecessary distinctions between audiences and grouped content around participating in professional development programs, requesting expert support, and finding …

All of the basic principles of assessment that apply to individual students’ work apply to group work as well. Assessing group work has additional aspects to consider, however.