Tag: assessment
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Assessment in the Digital Age
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Article by Kris Vespia, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) CATL’s programming focus for the Fall 2025 semester is “Assessment in the Digital Age.” Lately, we hear a lot of concerns from instructors regarding generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and academic honesty, whether it’s “I just know all my students…
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Assessment and Assignment Guidance in the GAI Era
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CATL is often asked questions about how to approach assessments in the wake of easy access to generative artificial intelligence (GAI). We hope to crowd-source suggestions and examples from our own instructors so that we can build a repository of work from the UWGB community in Canvas. Please take our GAI Assignment Repository survey if…
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Creating and Using Rubrics for Assessment
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A rubric is a scoring tool that breaks down the expectations for an assignment into grading criteria. Rubrics serve as a guide for students to complete an assignment successfully and as a measurement tool for instructors to determine to what degree students have met the assignment’s expectations. Rubrics are highly flexible and can be used…
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Writing Effective Multiple-Choice Questions
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What does a “good” multiple-choice question look like? What aspects influence a multiple-choice assessment’s reliability and validity in terms of assessing target learning outcomes? Although the answers to these questions may vary depending on who you ask, there are common themes that emerge when you look at recommendations from assessment experts. Check out these seven…
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Creating Intentional and Impactful Multiple-Choice Assessments
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Multiple-choice quizzes are one of the most common forms of assessment in higher education, as they can be used in courses of nearly every discipline and level. Multiple-choice questions are also one of the quickest and easiest forms of assessment to grade, especially when administered through Canvas or another platform that supports auto-grading. Still, like…