EDU 7815 - Assessment of Student Learning

3 cr

As articulated by the leaders of Carnegie Mellon University's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation, "Learning takes place in students' heads where it is invisible to others. This means that learning must be assessed through performance: what students can do with their learning. Assessing students' performance can involve assessments that are formal or informal, high- or low-stakes, anonymous or public, individual or collective." This course explores key strategies for assessing student learning and performance as well as ways to clarify expectations and performance criteria to students. Emphasis is placed on the role of the PK-12 administrator in developing, supporting, using, and sustaining effective assessment of student learning in PK-12 institutions and systems.