Assessment for Learning and Evaluation

Catalog description

Assessments are “the wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition, or educational needs of students” (Great Schools Partnership, 2015, para. 1). Educators rely on assessments to provide evidence of student learning and, when done effectively, assessments build trust with learners. The cycle of assessment aligns with the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm. This course teaches participants how to purposefully choose assessment methods for their context; scrutinize and, if necessary, improve the quality of tests before administering them; and use results to evaluate past instruction and inform future instruction. Rather than seeing learners simply as data points, this course helps educators use assessment as a tool to help them address the needs of the whole child.