Welcome to our Transforming Assessment e-Course
Freely Accessible | Self-paced | Certificate of Completion
This self-paced, professional learning e-course provides higher education instructors with the opportunity to transform their assessment practices – building on existing assessment knowledge and skills, reflecting on foundational assessment principles, exploring contemporary assessment strategies, and creating new assessments – to support students’ learning across disciplines and contexts.
The course is ideal for professors, instructors, and graduate students looking to enhance their assessment practices for university and college teaching contexts.
The course uses a variety of resources and learning activities to engage you in transforming your assessment knowledge and practice, including interactive tasks, expert videos, a guided workbook, a planning framework, and curated resources. The course emphasizes moving from traditional paper and pencil assessments to authentic, alternative assessments of student learning.
- You can complete this e-course individually or collaboratively with colleagues.
- You can complete the whole course or individual modules or topics depending on your learning priorities.
Course Learning Outcomes
Apply foundational assessment principles and e-tools to the design of an assessment plan
Apply alternative assessment strategies to ensure alignment, authenticity, and transparency in assessment
Apply assessment principles to practically and critically address dilemmas in student assessment
Create “good” assessments for a variety of teaching contexts (in-person, blended, online) and students’ needs
Integrate Equity, Diversity, Decolonization, and Indigeneity (EDDI) strategies in assessment planning and decisions
Contributing Organizations
This course was developed by Queen’s Assessment and Evaluation Group (AEG) in partnership with the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and funded by eCampus Ontario’s Virtual Learning Strategy.
