How to Make Student Assessments Useful and Productive
- Make sure your assessments are valid and reliable. ...
- Give productive feedback. ...
- Use Backward Design. ...
- Remember that your words matter. ...
- Motivate students to be responsible, active learners.
How can you make sure your assessment is efficient?
Effective formal assessment tasks
- directly relate to the learning intentions or particular learning outcome.
- are explicit about what learners are required to do.
- are time efficient and manageable.
- include clear and explicit assessment criteria.
- provide challenge for the full range of learners being assessed.