Assessing and Evaluating for Learning/Resources

Assessing and Evaluating for Learning

Exploring assessment principles and practices from a learner-centred perspective

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Collating resources

Please add resources that you find to this page under Additional resources. All resources for the course are being collated on these following sites (Delicious bookmarking site and Youtube) and can be accessed there. They are a mix of resources provided in the modules and extra material.

• Assessment material on Delicious.
• Assessment playlist on Youtube.

APA Referencing

Referencing in APA format is required when you are referring to material that you have been reading. This is called citing. The following links take you to some useful resources to help with referencing.

• The Purdue Owl APA Referencing Guide has all the information you need to produce APA references and is clearly explained.
• Guide to APA referencing - University of Waikato.
• Citation Machine is a great website that takes you through all the steps of adding the information required for a reference before producing the formatted reference for you. You can then cut and paste it into your document. Very handy.

Essay and report writing

• Essay Writing Skills - this module by Helen Lindsay (Learning Centre, Otago Polytechnic) has fabulous resources. Use this to find out how to write an academic essay or to refresh your skills. It includes:

The University of Otago and Otago Polytechnic resource - Essay writing with readings - A homegrown (Dunedin) and fun online essay writing module. A great place to start.

Resources from the modules

Lists of resources used in each of the course modules are in this section.

Introduction to Assessment

• An overview of assessment. From The Teaching and Learning Centre, Queen's University, Kingston in Ontario, Canada.
• Assessment - an overview of the values and purpose of assessment.
• Comprehensive assessment: An Overview - Video (8.36 min).
• The fundamentals of effective assessment: Twelve principles. Centre for the Study of Higher Education at Melbourne University. (Reference as: Centre for the Study of Higher Education (2002). The fundamentals of effective assessment: Twelve principles. Melbourne University. Retrieved from http://www.cshe.unimelb.edu.au/assessinglearning/07/index.html)
• Glossary of Assessment Terms from the American Public University System.
• Instruction words and definitions from the Online Information Literacy module. (A Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) eLearning Collaborative Development Funded project between the University of Otago, Dunedin College of Education and Otago Polytechnic.)
• Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. (1994). Improving Science and Mathematics Education: A Toolkit for Professional Developers: Alternative Assessment. Retrieved from http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/assment/as5relia.htm.
• Suskie, L. (2002). Fair Assessment Practices: Giving Students Equitable Opportunities to Demonstrate Learning. Retrieved from http://www.elcamino.edu/administration/vpsca/docs/assessment/FairAssessmentPractices_Suskie.pdf

Aligning and Designing Assessment

• Bloom's taxonomy.
• Bloom's Digital Taxonomy.
• Bloom's Revised Taxonomy devised in 2001 by Anderson and Krathwohl. (Reference as: Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington. (2010). Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Retrieved from http://www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teaching/steps-to-teaching-success/bloom-revised-taxonomy)
• Cultural Diversity Resources.
• Five Stage model for e-moderating by Gilly Salmon.
• Cultural diversity and community cohesion - a paper prepared for the Start project. The definitions "embrace Maori as Tangata Whenua, whilst acknowledging ... Maori perspectives" (p. 2).
• ICE model - Ideas, Connections and Extensions - Fostaty Young, S., & Wilson, R. (2000). The ICE Model of qualitative assessment.
• Purposeful Assessment to Support Intended Learning with Sue Fostaty Young (March 2011) - video (69.5 mins). This is an excellent description of the issues associated with designing assessment for learning.
• Fostaty Young (2005). Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Higher Education: Using ICE to improve student learning. As published in the Proceedings of the Improving Student Learning Symposium, London, UK, 13, 105-115. Imperial College, London, UK, September 2005. Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development. Retrieved from http://www.queensu.ca/ctl/resources/topicspecific/assessment/ISL_paper.pdf
• Learning Outcomes.

Assessment Methods and Tools

• Forms of assessment a range of tools.
• The fundamentals of effective assessment: Twelve principles. Centre for the Study of Higher Education at Melbourne University. (Reference as: Centre for the Study of Higher Education (2002). The fundamentals of effective assessment: Twelve principles. Melbourne University. Retrieved from http://www.cshe.unimelb.edu.au/assessinglearning/07/index.html)
• Selecting methods of assessment by Dunn (2011). (based on the work of Nightingale et al., 1996). Eight broad categories of learning outcomes and lists of potential tools for each category.

Reference as: Dunn, L. (2011) Selecting methods of assessment. Oxford: Oxford Brookes University. Retrieved from http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/resources/methods.html

Essays

• Beattie, K., & James, R. (date unknown) Assessing essays. Melbourne: Centre for Higher Education. Retrieved from http://www.cshe.unimelb.edu.au/pdfs/Assessing_essays.pdf
• Haines, C. (2004). Assessing students’ written work. Marking essays and reports. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
• Forster, F. Hounsell, D., & Thompson, S. (Eds). (1995). Tutoring and Demonstrating : A Handbook. Edinburgh: Centre for Teaching, : Learning and Assessment, The University of Edinburgh.
• Race, P. (Ed.). (1999). 2000 Tips for Lecturers. London: Kogan Page.
• Reiner, C. M., Bothell, T. W., Sudweeks, R. R., & Wood, B. (2002). Preparing effective essay questions: A self-directed workbook : for educators: New Forums Press.
• Tutoring and Demonstrating : A Handbook - chapter six from has some good advice on marking essays from page 56 onwards.
• Useful instruction verbs.

Tests and exams

• Improving Multiple Choice Questions from the Center for Faculty Excellence from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Quizzes, Tests, and Exams By Barbara Gross Davis, University of California, Berkeley
• Tests and Exams from Georgian College, Ontario , Canada

Student role - (self and peer assessment)

• Brown, S., & Knight, P. (1994). Assessing learners in higher education. London: Kogan Page.
• Brown, S., Race, P., & Smith, B. (1996). 500 tips on assessment. London: Kogan Page.
• Glasgow, N, A., & Hicks, C.D. (2003). What successful teachers do: 91 research based classroom strategies for new and veteran teachers. California: Corwin Press.
• Habeshaw,S., Gibbs, G., & Habeshaw, T. (1998). 53 Interesting ways to assess your students. Bristol, U.K: Technical and Educational Services Ltd.
• Moon, J. (2002). The module and programme development handbook: A practical guide to linking levels, learning outcomes and assessment. London: Kogan Page.
• Race, P., & Brown, S. (1993). 500 Tips for tutors. London: Kogan Page.

Practical assessment

• Brown, S. & Glasner, A. (Eds.). (1999). Assessment matters in higher education: Choosing and using diverse approaches. London: The Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press.
• Harvey, L., 2004–9, Analytic Quality Glossary, Quality Research International. Retrieved on 29 October 2009 from http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/glossary/
• Race, P. (Ed.).(1999). The Times Higher Education Supplement: 2000 tips for lecturers. London: Kogan Page.
• TSL Education Ltd. (2008). Assessment criteria for practical skills.

e-Assessment

• Teacher's Handbook on e-Assessment by Geoffrey Crisp. Online assessments include tests, role play, scenarios, games and virtual world assessments.
• Transforming assessment archived webinar series. A series of recorded presentations about e-assessment. The session will download in Blackboard Collaborate - this takes a little time, and you will need to do the Audio Set Up Wizard via Tools to make sure your headset is correctly connected so you can hear.
• JISC. (2010). Effective Assessment in a Digital Age. UK: Higher Education Funding Council for England and Jisc.

Feedback and Learning Support

• Gibbs, G. (2010). Using assessment to support student learning. UK: University of East Anglia.
• Nicol, D. & Macfarlane-Dick, D. (2006). Principles of good feedback practices. A synopsis of the framework of seven principles of good feedback practice and methods and techniques provided by Flinders University. The full article is also available as follows.

• Nicol, D. & Macfarlane-Dick, D. (2006). Formative assessment and self-regulated learning: A model and seven principles of good feedback practice. Studies in Higher Education, 31(2), 199-218. Retrieved from http://www.reap.ac.uk/reap/public/papers//DN_SHE_Final.pdf.

• Spiller, D. (2009). Assessment: Feedback to promote student learning. Hamilton, New Zealand: Teaching Development, The University of Waikato. An excellent reference booklet. Retrieved from http://www.waikato.ac.nz/tdu/pdf/booklets/6_AssessmentFeedback.pdf
• Basic guidelines for giving feedback. Free Management Library, Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Some handy tips by various authors relevant to verbal feedback.
• The University of Edinburgh. (2010). New ways of giving feedback. Novel ways of using technology to give feedback - podcasts (audio and video), screencasts, and clickers.
• View three short videos showing different ways to give feedback - good, bad and ugly.

Assessment Decisions and Marking

Material in this section is divided into the topics of moderation, rubrics, and tips for marking.

Moderation

• New Zealand Qualifications Framework guidelines - useful information about moderation.
• Moderation processes - this resource is aimed at schools but contains concepts that are transferable to any context.
• Principles for moderation of assessment] - a handy guide sheet from the Australian Catholic University. (Reference as: Australian Catholic University. (2008). Principles for moderation of assessment. Retrieved from http://www.acu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/150934/Moderation_principles-final.pdf).
• Kuzich, S., Groves, R., O’Hare, S., & Pelliccione, L. (2010). Building team capacity: sustaining quality in assessment and moderation practices in a fully online unit. In the proceedings of the ATN Assessment Conference 2010 University of Technology Sydney. Retrieved from http://www.iml.uts.edu.au/pdfs/Kuzich.pdf

Rubrics

• Armstrong, S., Chan, S., Malfroy, J., & Thomson, R. (2008). Assessment Guide. Implementing criteria and standards-based assessment. Sydney: University of Western Sydney (UWS). Retrieved from http://uws.clients.squiz.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/53827/Assessment_Guide.pdf
• Why Rubrics? What's all the Hype? From TeAchnology.com: The Online Teacher Resource can provide a more detailed definition to rubrics. Scroll down to the section on what are Rubrics? for a general introduction.
• University of Waterloo provides a clear and easy to follow information sheet on rubrics, their development and use.

Tips for marking

• The University of Exeter offer some very valuable tips for marking written work.
• Kate Beattie & Richard James also offer some useful advice on assessing essays.

Examples of rubrics

• Rubric for assessing student presentations.
• Assessment information summary rubric - this site also has links to a variety of other examples.
• Assessment rubrics - lots of different kinds. From The Teaching and Learning Centre, Queen's University, Kingston in Ontario, Canada.

Norm-referenced and criteria-referenced assessment

Assessments such as the IELTS test are norm-referenced. What does this mean? To find out more you may wish to access the resources.

• Norm referencing.
• Criterion referencing.
• Seeking quality in criterion referenced assessment.

Additional resources

Please add to this section. These are additional resources for you to browse through and may be useful for your study.

• Kindle version of 500 Tips on Assessment by Phil Race, Sally Brown and Brenda Smith (This was released in 2007 - the book was released in 2005.)