In light of Gilbert's recent article on the woes of assessment, assessors must keep focused on improving student learning and helping teachers thrive. Bad assessment is bad; good assessment is good.
Psychometrics 101: Know What Your Assessment Data is Telling You
Presented by Eric Ermie, Executive Director of Sales, ExamSoft Worldwide, Inc.
Keep it? Throw it out? Content/teaching issue? Bad question? Too easy? Too hard? What the heck? More than likely you
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Incorporating embedded assessment is difficult and time consuming for faculty. Here are a few ways embedded assessment with ExamSoft will make life for Faculty, Students, and Administration easier.
We use percentages to measure how students are performing - but does that really explain to them how well they're learning specific course objectives? Watch how ExamSoft's embedded assessment platform
Writing Multiple Choice Questions that Measure Higher Order Thinking
Multiple choice questions that measure higher order thinking are not easy to write, but including them on exams will lead to a more comprehensive assessment of a student’s learning.
Robert Casanova, Assistant Dean of Clinical Science Curriculum and Assistant Vice Dean for Medical Education at the Covenant Medical Branch at Texas Tech University, discusses how his program gained f
Using Categories to Direct Curriculum Reform and Evaluation
Presented by Sarah B. McBrien, Curriculum & Assessment Manager, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine
Facing curriculum reform? Need to look closer at what content is being tes
Utilizing and Assessing Peer Instructor-Generated Self-Assessments Using ExamSoft
Dr. Melinda E. Lull and Dr. Jennifer L. Mathews share their experience using ExamSoft to create a peer instructor program to administer formative self-assessment and improve student learning.
Everybody In: Aligning Faculty and Administrators to New Assessment Practices
In this webinar, Dr. Jennifer Matthews and Dr. Jane Souza, will discuss hurdles they have had to overcome and how they have managed to cultivate the culture of assessment.
ExamSoft's rubric grading function provides faculty with an easy tool for assessing all types of student work. Rubrics help faculty create an objective framework to evaluate subjective assessment.
Rachel Forbes, Managing Director for Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Office of Medical Education, Covenant Branch, shares how ExamSoft's efficiency and ease of use wo
Assessment Consistency: Is Everyone on the Same Page?
Presented by Melinda E. Lull, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Jennifer L. Mathews, Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, both from Wegmans School of Pharmacy, St. John