Purpose
Timing
Types
Tech Time
General Category
100
Used to establish what your students already know when they start your course.
What is diagnostic assessment.
100
You can conduct this type of assessment at any time during your course.
What is formative assessment?
100
This form of summative assessment assumes there is one correct answer which is selected from up to five different options.
What are multiple choice tests?
100
You're getting it right now!
What is formative assessment?
100
This is the second step in the backwards design process.
What is assessment?
200
Provides evidence that your students have retained knowledge and have the ability to use it in real life.
What is confirmative assessment?
200
This type of assessment normally happens at the end of a learning module/course.
What is summative assessment?
200
This type of formative assessment requires students to identify a concept, topic or question that they are not confident about at the end of a class.
What is the muddiest point?
200
At CMCC we use these in large lectures to determine if students are understanding the content of the lecture.
What are Clickers?
200
All assessment tools must be based on these.
What are learning outcomes?
300
This provides information to the student and/or the teacher about the effectiveness of the student's learning.
What is formative feedback?
300
You can conduct this type of assessment before your course even starts!
What is diagnostic assessment?
300
This is a knowledge based, confirmative assessment that your students must pass.
What is the Canadian Chiropractic Examining Board (CCEB) knowledge-based examination?
300
You can create these and post them on KIRO so students can test their knowledge after reading a chapter, or attending a lecture.
What are on-line quizzes.
300
These will help you to grade student work in an efficient, effective and consistent manner.
What is a rubric?
400
This type of assessment results in a judgement about the overall effectiveness of the student's learning.
What is summative assessment?
400
This type of assessment will happen when your students have completed their degree at CMCC.
What is confirmative assessment?
400
Observation of a student performing a task and providing feedback using a rubric.
What is an effective way of measuring psychomotor skills?
400
We created these on-line tools to learn terminology.
What is Quizlet? Flash-cards?
400
This will create greater student engagement in an assignment if it is provided.
What is choice?
500
This is used to support data-driven decision-making and measure knowledge, skills, or abilities against defined competencies or learning outcomes.
What is assessment?
500
It's good practice to do this around the third week of your course to collect your students' opinions about the learning environment.
What is a survey?
500
This is a collection of a student's work that is collected over the course or program.
What is a learning portfolio?
500
When students are asked to provide feedback on their peer's postings on a discussion board, this provides formative feedback on this type of thinking.
What is critical thinking?
500
This type of assessment is like your dashboard on your car. It gives you information that will allow you to modify your lesson plan based on student feedback.
What is formative feedback?