1. HELLO EVERYONE AND WELCOME TO THE
CLASS!
TINA GILSON
HE 527 ASSESSING STUDENT’S LEARNING ONLINE
INSTRUCTOR: DR. LUCAS

2. INTRODUCTION
• Describe what an assessment is
• Discuss the two type of assessments
• Describe what activities will be used to evaluate the
student
• Explain how grading will be used to determine if the
student has met course outcomes
Reference:
CarnegieMellon. (n.d.) Whys & Hows of Assessment. Retrieved May 24, 2014, from
http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/assessment/basics/formative-summative.html
UCONN. (n.d.) What is Assessment? Retrieved May 24, 2014, from http://assessment.uconn.edu/what/index.html

3. DEFINING ASSESSMENT
• The University of Connecticut defines assessment as “the process
of gathering and discussing information from multiple and diverse
sources in order to develop a deep understanding of what
students know, understand, and can do with their knowledge as a
result of their educational experience.”
• Simply put, an assessment is the teacher’s way to determine if a
student has met learning objectives and course outcomes
through evaluation of certain activities.

4. TYPES OF ASSESSMENTS
• FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS
• SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS

5. FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS
• Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
discusses the difference between
formative and summative. CMU
describes formative assessments as
those used “to monitor student
learning to provide ongoing feedback
that can be used by instructors to
improve their teaching and by
students to improve their learning.”

6. FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
This is not an all-inclusive list of activities:
• Case studies
• Group discussion and activities
• Quizzes
• Written assessments
• Research projects
• Wikis
• Blogs
NOTE: To determination if an activity is formative or not is by how it is
used

7. FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Key Elements:
• Leaner-centered or student-centered
• Feedback
• from instructor
• fellow students

8. SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
• When you are summatively assessed it is to determine if
you have met the outcome of each module or the course.
Summative activities can take place throughout the course
or can be utilized as an end of course assessment. This all
depends on how the instructor wants to use them.
• Specific activities are similar to those used for formative
but it is all dependent on how they are used.

9. GRADING ASSESSMENTS
• Grading:
• A rubric compares a student’s work to a set of
objectives
• Measured based off of your level of comprehension
and application of the work.
• The student will be given a grade based off of a set of
points that is awarded based off of how well or not
the student meets those objectives.

10. SUMMARY
• What an assessment is
• Discuss the two type of assessments
• Describe the activities used to evaluate the student
• Explain how students are graded to determine if
course outcomes were met

11. QUESTIONS?