The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning.

Assessment is simply the process of collecting information about student learning and performance to improve education. At Carnegie Mellon, we believe that for assessment to be meaningful (not bean …

However, you don’t have to be an assessment expert to employ sound practices to guide your teaching. Here we present the basic concepts you need to know to become more systematic in your …

Assessments should reveal how well students have learned what we want them to learn while instruction ensures that they learn it. For this to occur, assessments, learning objectives, and instructional …

Identify a set of problems that can be solved most effectively by only one of a few methods that you are teaching in the class. Ask students to identify by name which methods best fit which problems …

Although your particular field of study or type of assessment may not be represented, viewing a rubric that is designed for a similar assessment may give you ideas for the kinds of criteria, descriptions, …

Assessment activities that are designed to feed the results directly, and ideally, immediately, back into revising the course, program or institution with the goal of improving student learning.

One goal of this website is to share course- and program-level assessments that have been developed here at Carnegie Mellon. We encourage Carnegie Mellon instructors and programs to contribute …

What is the difference between assessment and grading? Assessment and grading are not the same. Generally, the goal of grading is to evaluate individual students’ learning and performance. Although …

Here are links to a few methods that instructors can employ to gauge students’ prior knowledge. Performance-based prior knowledge assessments Prior knowledge self-assessments Classroom …