Hacking Your Course Assessments (Summer 2025)

May 19 – June 8, 2025

Short Course

Description

How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended?  In this course, you’ll get an opportunity examine the learning objectives in your course (something your students should know or be able to do) and the assessments that are aligned to help measure and evaluate student achievement on this learning objective. During the course, you’ll have an opportunity to explore traditional assessments or performance based assessments and make improvements to your own traditional assessment or scoring rubric to improve validity and reliability, as well as reduce the presence of bias in your assessment. Finally, you will be able apply the wise feedback method to provide effective feedback on a student work sample.

Course Learning Objectives

After completing the course, participants will be able to:

• Align an assessment tool with a learning objective to measure student
  learning.
• Create an assessment aligned with a learning objective.
• Improve an assessment or rubric to support equitable outcomes.
• Apply the Wise Feedback method to student work.
• Build an equitable and aligned assessment plan.

Materials Required

Prior to beginning this course, you should complete the following activities:

• Select a course and related assessments to which you’d like to apply these concepts
• Contact Tech Support to set up a D2L Brightspace “Sample/Sandbox” Course if you do not have one
  

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Suggested Audience

Faculty (Full-time and part-time), Instructional Designers and Technologists, and Faculty Developers/Trainers, Assessment Coordinators, Institutional Researchers.

Reflect on your Professional Development

As you progress through this course, please consider how you can use the assignments as a way to highlight your work on your Professional Development Plan. Consider sharing your work with your leadership team.

Estimated Time Commitment

Most participants are able to complete this course by committing 4-6 hours per week.

Registration Required

Use the RSVP tool below to register. After registering, a calendar invite will be sent to you as a reminder of the course start date. Please add this event to your calendar.

Accommodations

The NED is committed to providing universal access to all of our events, we’d like to discover how we can make the event more inclusive so you can fully participate!
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Machine generated captions are available in real-time for all Zoom events, however human generated CART (live caption) service and ASL interpretation can be requested with advanced notice (2 weeks) to make the event more accessible.
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Please, let us know of any disability-related accommodations that will facilitate your full participation.
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Questions?

Contact the Network for Educational Development.