Types of Assignments

Assessment Toolbox

The Electronic Portfolio

Assessment Using Concept Mapping

Assessment by Oral Presentation

Classroom Assessment Techniques

Test on the Important Parts of the Course
Assignments Should Stimulate Creative Thinking
Test Construction & Grading
Designing Tests to Maximize Learning
Best Practices for Designing & Grading Exams
Handbook on Test Development
How Can I Assess Critical Thinking with Student-Created Work?

Creating Multiple Choice Tests

Improving Multiple Choice Tests
Implementing Bloom to Enhance Student Learning

Grading

Reasons for Criticisms of Students' Academic Performance
Provide Timely Feedback
Improving College Grading
Learning Assessment in Science Students
The Agony and the Equity: Testing & Grading
Do Teachers' Comments on Students' Papers Help?

Formative v Summative Assignments

Classroom Assessment
Assessing Learning
Program Goal: Assessment

Creating Essay Tests

Improving Essay Tests
Constructing Essay Exams
Responding to Student Writing

Grading with Rubrics

Villanova faculty have shared criteria and rubrics that they have found helpful in setting expectations and determining students’ level of participation in their face-to-face and online courses. Please refer to them as a resource as you develop or refine your criteria for documenting students’ contributions. We encourage you to contact the faculty colleagues for further information, and invite you to email us your participation rubric for inclusion in the repository: vitalinfo@villanova.edu

• Video: Rubrics: Tools for Learning, Teaching, and Assessment - Dr. Bauer outlines the process of rubric creation and implementation and shares sample rubrics.
• Suskie, L. (2004). What is a rubic? In Assessing student learning, pp. 124-136.
• Grade Profiles
• VALUE rubric

Teaching Professor articles:

• How accurately do students track their participation?
• Grading participation fairly: Student perceptions
• Participation blues from the student perspective
• The "why" of class participation, College Teaching, 56(1), 2008
  

Rubric Repository Offered by Villanova Faculty

• Criteria for Student Participation in In-Class Discussions
• Analytic Discussion Forum Rubric - undergraduate-level course, Online Classroom, December 2013
• Rubric for Discussion Peer Evaluation - in-class, undergraduate-level courses
• Expectations for Discussion Board- online, graduate level course
• Instructions for Oral Test - face-to-face, undergraduate-level course
• Participation Guide for Online Discussion - synchronous, graduate-level course
• Rubric for Assessing Students' Contributions to Online Discussion Forum
• Rubric for Grading Students' Postings to Asynchronous Discussion Board and/or Blogs - face-to-face, undergraduate-level courses 
• Rubric and Self-Assessment Form for In-Class Participation - face-to-face, undergraduate-level course
• Syllabus Excerpts Related to Evaluating Participation - face-to-face, undergraduate-level course
• Rubric for Assessing Writing
• Rubric for Assessing Class Presentations
  

Tools for Rubric Creation:

• Rubistar
• iRubric