Student Assessment Within Courses
Ideas for assessing students in a course
We
brainstormed a variety of exercises and projects that could be used for
assessment of student progress within a course.
Faculty have submitted details for the following:
Research
papers
Research
project: Case Study
Webquests
Rubrics for assignments in Political Science
Other
ideas include:
Writing
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Papers:
Response/reaction papers, informal essays, term
papers
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Short in-class writing
assignments: often used to prepare students for class discussion
or evaluate their understanding
- Essay
exams
- Journals:
ongoing writing in response to texts or prompts that serves as a
student’s personal dialogue with course material
- Listing:
brainstorming by producing lists of concepts, claims, examples,
evidence, etc.
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Discussion boards
and email messages: dialogue among students or between student and
teacher about points
of clarification, struggles with concepts or texts, interpreting texts,
discussing assignments, reflecting on class discussions, exchanging
drafts, brainstorming collectively
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Close-reading
exercises:
exercises for individual students or groups of students completed in or
out of class that assist students in practicing close reading: noticing
significant details, patterns of repetition,implications
of words, etc.
- Annotated
bibliographies:
papers that summarize and evaluate a set of related critical articles
or books in a very condensed form accompanied by
complete and accurate
bibliographic
information
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Reports:
Progress reports, technical reports, lab reports
Course Projects
Research:
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Laboratory/field research projects,
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Collection and review of published
literature, critical and scholarly essays,
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Senior theses, honors theses
Course Presentations:
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Class debates
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Oral presentations of course projects
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Poster presentations of course projects
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Peer critiques
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Senior seminar presentations
Technology:
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Use in course projects, course
presentations
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