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

2. 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)

3. 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 /OSIRIS: /context/co/view/activityDetails/activity/ a-eb b3b4-0dcde494e316/expanded/False

4. 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

5. An example

6. References
Assessment. (n.d.). Retrieved December 11, 2014, from webster.com/dictionary/assessment
Suskie, L. (2009). Assessing Student Learning - A Common Sense Guide (2nd ed.). Retrieved from xt/co/view/activityDetails/activity/ a-eb b3b4- 0dcde494e316/expanded/False