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Effective assessment is a cornerstone of teaching and learning, providing educators with valuable insights into student progress, understanding, and achievement. Whether you're teaching a large enrollment course or a small seminar, implementing intentional assessment strategies can enhance both your teaching and your students' learning experiences.

What You’ll Learn in This Chapter:

• Assessment in Large Enrollment Classes: Techniques for managing and effectively assessing learning in courses with large student numbers.
• Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs): Simple, low-stakes strategies to gauge student understanding and inform your teaching.
• Creating and Using Learning Outcomes: Crafting clear, measurable outcomes to guide instruction and assessment.
• Five Misconceptions on Writing Feedback: Common pitfalls in providing feedback and how to avoid them.
• Formative Assessments: Methods to monitor student learning and provide ongoing feedback.
• Frequent Feedback: Using regular feedback to build a continuous dialogue with students.
• Rubrics: Developing effective rubrics to ensure clarity, consistency, and fairness in grading.
• Student Peer Assessment: Empowering students to evaluate each other's work constructively.
• Student Self-Assessment: Encouraging students to reflect on their own progress and learning.
• Summative Assessments: Best Practices: Crafting meaningful, high-stakes assessments that align with course goals.
• Summative Assessments: Types: Exploring various types of summative assessments and their applications.

Whether you're looking to refine your feedback process, improve assessment in large classes, or explore innovative strategies like peer and self-assessment, this chapter provides actionable insights and tools to support your teaching. Dive in to discover how thoughtful assessment practices can enhance learning outcomes and foster a more engaging and inclusive classroom environment.