Assessing Student Learning Jovan Petkovic CUR 528 Erinn Dougherty Moriarty December 11, 2014

Definition of Assessment Assessment is “the act of making a judgment about something : the act of assessing something : an idea or opinion about something : an amount that a person is officially required to pay especially as a tax” (Assessment, para. 1, 2014)

Assessment further defined “Assessment is the ongoing process of: Establishing clear, measurable expected outcomes of student learning Ensuring that students have sufficient opportunities to achieve those outcomes Systematically gathering, analyzing, and interpreting evidence to determine how well student learning matches our expectations Using the resulting information to understand and improve student learning” (Suskie, 2009, pg. 4) Suskie, L. (2009). Assessing Student Learning - A Common Sense Guide (2nd ed.). Retrieved from https://newclassroom3.phoenix.edu/Classroom/#/contextid /OSIRIS:45685114/context/co/view/activityDetails/activity/4 372003a-eb44-4761-b3b4-0dcde494e316/expanded/False

Contrast of three types of assessment Performance assessment Students demonstrate their learned skills Quantitative assessment Structured, predetermined response options Summarized into meaningful numbers and analyzed statistically Qualitative assessment Underused and underapprecicated Methods gives fresh insight by exploring and discovering problems and solutions Suskie, 2009, pg. 26-33

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References Assessment. (n.d.). Retrieved December 11, 2014, from http://www.merriam- webster.com/dictionary/assessment Suskie, L. (2009). Assessing Student Learning - A Common Sense Guide (2nd ed.). Retrieved from https://newclassroom3.phoenix.edu/Classroom/#/contextid/OSIRIS:45685114/conte xt/co/view/activityDetails/activity/4372003a-eb44-4761-b3b4- 0dcde494e316/expanded/False