Online Assessment

Practice Drafting Assessments

Describe a potential assessment to measure 1-2 of your learning outcomes.

How does your assessment meet the criteria on the rubric below? Do you need to revise your assessment or your learning outcome(s) It's not uncommon to refine learning outcomes during this process as you may find measuring your outcomes is not a clear-cut as it appears at the beginning.

Assessment Rubric Transcript

Additional Information

A Model of Learning Objectives: Iowa State University - This includes a tool for exploring the different dimensions of the revised Bloom's Taxonomy. They also have the same content in a pdf handout (1.64MB).
One alternative taxonomy to Bloom is Dee Fink's Taxonomy of Significant Learning (pdf, 41k). This is a non-hierarchical taxonomy that focuses on the interaction of 6 types of significant learning.
50 CATS by Angelo and Cross (pdf, 126k) (Compiled by Cunningham and Moore)
Flint, W. Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) for Online Instruction (pdf, 44k)
Alternative Assessment Methods for the Online Classroom (Faculty Focus)

References

Biggs, J.B. (2003). Teaching for quality learning at university (2^nd ed.). Buckingham: Open University Press/Society for Research into Higher Education.
Biggs, J. B. (2005). Aligning teaching for constructing learning. (pdf, 64k) Higher Education Academy Discussion Paper
McDowell, L. (2012). Assessment for learning. In L.Clouder, C. Broughan, S. Jewell, & G. Steventon (Eds.) Improving student engagement and development through assessment: Theory and practice in higher education. (pp 73-85). London: Routledge.

This content is from the Teaching Online Series by Indiana University.