Explore various strategies for your traditional, formative, or innovative assessments, and how to promote academic integrity.
Assessment strategies are the methods and approaches instructors use to evaluate students’ learning, including exams, essays, and presentations. Meanwhile, academic integrity refers to the ethical standards of honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility.
Together, strong assessment design and a commitment to integrity ensure that evaluation is meaningful, fair, and aligned with ethical academic practice.
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Traditional assessments
Traditional assessments typically refer to tests, quizzes, and exams used to evaluate students’ knowledge and understanding. These assessments often involve recalling facts, comprehending concepts, and demonstrating knowledge through written responses.
Formative assessments
Formative assessments are used throughout the learning period to monitor student progress. They provide feedback to improve student learning and inform the instructor whether to reinforce a concept (if time permits) during instruction or to continue with new content. These assessments typically do not affect the student’s final grade.
Summative assessments
Summative assessments are used to evaluate a student’s learning achievement at the end of an instructional unit or course, typically assigning a grade by assessing their understanding.
Innovative assessments
Innovative assessment approaches aim to provide a more holistic view of student learning, encouraging critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and real-world problem-solving. These assessments are not traditional in nature.
Academic integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to upholding the values of respect, integrity, and accountability in academic work. For students, this means completing academic work honestly and for instructors, this means supporting students to learn with integrity in their courses.
