Developmental Educators’ Summit
Session Resources
Classroom Assessment Techniques
Many faculty have developed ingenuous and creative ways for gauging how well students are learning before they evaluate this learning for a grade. This type of assessment, known more formally as classroom assessment techniques (or CATs), is an approach to improving student learning made popular by Angelo and Cross. This session will give faculty an opportunity to share the variety of assessment activities that they have found to be successful in helping students become more effective learners--as well as helping them as faculty become more effective teachers.
Resources:
Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers, by Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross, Jossey-Bass Publishers
The following three web sites give examples of how faculty can use some of the classroom assessment techniques included in the Angelo and Cross book.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~centeach/tgi/
http://www.siue.edu/~deder/assess/catmain.html (This includes an electronic version of the Angelo and Cross Teaching Goals Inventory)
http://www.flaguide.org
