Assessment Toolbox
Artificial Intelligence in Assessment
- GenAI Survey for Higher Education Assessment Professionals National survey initiative gathering how higher education assessment professionals are using generative AI, including practices, concerns, training needs, and adoption trends.
Curriculum Mapping
- Curriculum Mapping – Curriculum Matrix (University of Hawaii at Manoa) University of Hawai‘i resource explaining curriculum mapping as a tool to align courses, instruction, and program outcomes and to identify where learning is taught and assessed.
Data and Analytics
- Big Data: 20 Free Big Data Sources Everyone Should Know Article highlighting free public big data sources and ideas for using them in analysis and decision-making.
- CYFAR Evaluation Modules Free evaluation modules covering topics such as evaluation design, data analysis, and communicating results.
- Data USA Data platform that makes U.S. public data easier to explore and visualize. Useful for finding statistics, trends, and contextual data from multiple government sources in one place.
- Evergreen Data: Data Visualization Training Training and resources from Stephanie Evergreen on data visualization, report design, dashboards, and communicating data clearly through workshops, books, templates, and webinars.
Equity-Minded Assessment
- Equity in Assessment (NILOA) NILOA resource on equity in assessment, emphasizing culturally responsive approaches that better support diverse students and document what they know and can do.
- Equity-minded Learning Assessment (University of Hawaii at Manoa) University of Hawai‘i primer on equity-minded assessment of student learning. Introduces emerging frameworks such as antiracist, culturally responsive, bias-aware, and socially just assessment.
Rubrics
- Authentic Assessment Toolbox Jon Mueller’s Authentic Assessment Toolbox, a practical guide to creating authentic tasks, rubrics, and standards for measuring and improving student learning.
- Authentic Assessment Toolbox Step 4: Create the Rubric Step-by-step guide from the Authentic Assessment Toolbox on creating rubrics for authentic assessment.
- Authentic Assessment Toolbox: Authentic Tasks and Rubrics Examples of authentic assessment tasks and accompanying rubrics from Jon Mueller’s Authentic Assessment Toolbox.
- Authentic Assessment Toolbox: Rubrics (Jon Mueller) Overview of rubrics from Jon Mueller’s Authentic Assessment Toolbox, with guidance for designing and using rubrics in assessment.
- Holistic, Analytic, and Single-Point Rubrics This article by Jennifer Gonzalez on Cult of Pedagogy offers a clear primer on the three main types of assessment rubrics used in education: holistic, analytic, and single-point rubrics.
- iRubric Rubric platform that helps educators create, share, use, and report with rubrics, including LMS integration and tools for communicating performance expectations.
- Meet the Single-Point Rubric This follow-up article by Jennifer Gonzalez on Cult of Pedagogy discusses in more detail the Single-Point Rubric, advocating for its widespread adoption in classrooms because of its unique ability to streamline grading and improve student feedback.
- RCampus Rubric Gallery Public gallery of rubrics shared by RCampus users, searchable by subject, coursework type, keyword, and grade level.
- Texas A&M Student Leader Learning Outcomes & Rubrics The SLLO initiative was created for students and advisors to document student leadership and growth over time. SLLO does not operate under one leadership theory, but seeks to use multiple leadership models to allow students and advisor to utilize their resources in a variety of arenas.
- Virginia State University Institutional Level Student Learning Outcomes, Rubrics, and Assessment Results Virginia State University Institutional Level Student Learning Outcomes, Rubrics, and Assessment Results for the six major areas required by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV)
Student Learning Outcomes
- Authentic Assessment Toolbox: Standards (Jon Mueller) Resource on developing standards for authentic assessment from Jon Mueller’s Authentic Assessment Toolbox.
- Develop Program Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) – University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawai‘i guide to writing clear, concise program student learning outcomes that describe what students should know, do, or value by completion.
- Student Self-Assessment of their Learning Goals Web-based survey instrument that helps faculty and students assess progress on learning goals.
- Virginia State University Institutional Level Student Learning Outcomes, Rubrics, and Assessment Results Virginia State University Institutional Level Student Learning Outcomes, Rubrics, and Assessment Results for the six major areas required by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV)