Developing Effective Summative Assessments

Event Description

Summative assessments are modes of classroom assessment that are designed to evaluate how much students have learned in a unit or a course. These assessments are often high stakes, graded, and formal. The vast majority of college courses have summative assessments (e.g., exams, papers, projects, presentations), but what does it take to make a particularly effective one? In this workshop, we will discuss the benefits of using various modes of assessment and aligning your assessments with course goals. Overall, we will consider best practices in assessment design that will ensure that your summative assessment is a truly authentic, equitable measure of student learning in the course.

For questions about this Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences workshop*, please contact Dr. Meg Gregory, Associate Director for Faculty Programs.

*Some workshops will take place via Zoom in Spring 2023. For Zoom workshops, the link to the Zoom session will be sent out with the reminder email the day before the workshop. Attendees must plan to participate in the entire workshop in order to get credit for attendance towards the Professional Development in Teaching Program. If you have questions about the workshops in this series, please contact Dr. Meg Gregory.

Registration

Workshop registration is now closed. Should you still wish to participate, please email Meg.