Assessment resources - Teaching Commons

We have a wealth of assessment resources in the form of guides and videos. There are resources for alternative assessment strategies applicable across many situations, including for large classes, and online, as well as to preserve academic integrity. Equitable assessment, grading, and feedback practices are also included.

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Alternative Assessments for Teaching - This guide outlines a variety of alternative assessment strategies that can be used in, face-to-face, remote, or online teaching. These strategies are organized as low, medium, and high levels of preparation and investment.

Guide to Alternative Assessments - This guide is designed to help instructors design and implement alternative assessments. Each of the 35 alternative assessments highlighted in this document contains a description, the benefits, challenges and solutions, examples, rubrics, and additional resources.

OER as Alternative Assessment Handout - A short handout that acts as a quick guide for using Open Educational Resources (OER) to design alternative assessment.

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Guide to Large Classroom Assessments - This guide is designed to help instructors think about assessment strategies in large classrooms. The guide includes examples of techniques, tips, and tricks, as well as examples of rubrics and alternative assessment ideas.

Assessing student learning in large classes: My experience with alternatives to multiple choice tests

This is a video series created by Merv Mosher, Professor - Teaching Stream, Kinesiology & Health Science.

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Ungrading - a variety of learning focused evaluation strategies that share an ideology: to reduce the pressure of grades while increasing students’ sense of agency in their learning.

12 Days of Assessment: Day 4 - EDI in Assessment

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In addition to the alternative assessment and assessment in large classes tabs above,

Open Book Exam Toolkit - This toolkit will help you consider the steps to creating and implementing open book exams.

The Assessment Strategy Exchange included a , and a (beginning at 00:57:36). It also included the following:

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Rubrics Handout - A quick guide for using rubrics, including information and examples on different types of rubrics.

Feedback Handout - This short handout acts as a quick guide for providing feedback in online courses, including information and examples on different types of feedback.

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