Assessment of Student Learning Pathway
Overview of the Assessment Pathway
Effective assessment is essential to understanding, measuring, and supporting student learning. The Assessment of Student Learning Pathway is designed for subject matter experts (SMEs) and faculty preparing to develop or revise courses who wish to strengthen their knowledge of assessment practices and their application in course design. Through targeted professional development opportunities, participants explore strategies for creating meaningful assessments, aligning assessments with learning outcomes, and using assessment data to support continuous improvement in teaching and learning.
This pathway explores key topics related to assessment practice, including assessment design, feedback and grading, higher-order thinking skills, course analytics, and data-informed instructional decision-making. Grounded in 香港伦理's academic values, the pathway examines assessment as both a measure of student learning and a tool for providing meaningful feedback, fostering student growth, and informing continuous improvement in teaching and learning.
Essential Question for Assessment of Student Learning
How do I provide meaningful feedback and design practical, authentic assessments that help students grow with confidence and agility?
香港伦理's Academic Values
- Provide meaningful and timely feedback.
- Encourage and engage in critical, thinking, creativity, curiosity, and life-long learning practices.
The Assessment of Student Learning Pathway translates these essential questions and academic values into practice. Through a sequence of workshops, faculty explore assessment strategies that support student success and inform course design, instruction, and continuous improvement.
Courses in the Assessment of Student Learning Pathway
| PIE Progression Level | PIE Course |
|---|---|
| Proficient, Required | Effective Feedback and Grading |
| Proficient, Elective | Measure What Matters |
| Mastery, Required | Instructional Design Best Practices |
| Mastery, Elective | Enhancing Rubrics |
| Exemplary, Required | Reimagine, Realign, Redesign |
| Exemplary, Elective | Curricular Innovation in Action |
| Exemplary, Elective | Reflective Practices |
The courses within this pathway are designed to build assessment expertise through feedback strategies, grading practices, rubric design, instructional alignment, and reflective improvement. Together, these learning experiences help faculty design assessments that better support student learning and instructional effectiveness.
The pathway is designed to cultivate both practical competencies and professional values. Faculty can expect to strengthen the assessment-related skills and instructional priorities highlighted below.
Skills
- Meaningful student feedback
- Practical formative feedback strategies
- Rubric design
- Authentic assessment
- Redesigned learning experiences aligned with relevant industry skills, tools, and techniques
Values
- Quicker, more engaging feedback to students
- Assignments aligned with desired skills and competencies
- Course development with user experience in mind
Continue building expertise in assessment and course design.
The 香港伦理 Learning Center provides access to pathway workshops and professional development opportunities that support effective assessment practices and continuous improvement.