Assessment as Key

Author Tisha Bender stresses the importance of assessment not only as a way to measure student output, (how well a student understands and applies concepts taught), but she also argues that assessment can and should drive the design of a course. As a constructivist she emphasizes that assessment needs to be in constant alignment with the course learning objectives and supported by teaching strategies that are constructivist in nature; project based learning, collaborative learning, interactive dialogue between learners and instructors and writing workshop techniques. (p. 176) When it came to discussions this week we were given the choice of responding to prompts on either: how we plan to assess learning in our own ed web…