Faculty Development Program

Evaluating Student Achievement through Testing and Writing

As a result of attending this workshop, faculty attendees will be able to:

• Create assessment tools in relationship to established learning outcomes.
• Identify and apply a wide variety of assessment strategies to most effectively facilitate student learning.
• Create assessment tools that address higher order thinking skills as identified in Bloom's Cognitive Taxonomy.
• Integrate test analysis and correction as part of the student learning process.
• Create and use rubrics to guide assessment of qualitative, subjective, critical thinking assignments, e.g. essays, opinion papers, reflections.
• Utilize formative and summative assessments as well as "alternative assessments" to more effectively address different learning styles.

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