{"id":21649,"date":"2018-10-11T08:17:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T12:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=21649"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:29:41","slug":"brush-up-on-assessment-fundamentals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2018\/brush-up-on-assessment-fundamentals\/","title":{"rendered":"Brush up on assessment fundamentals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Brush up on assessment fundamentals\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Assessment is often one of the most dreaded parts of teaching and learning. But as challenging as it can be, designing sound assessments is critical to the success of your course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us on Oct. 17 from 9 a.m. &#8211; noon for a workshop that will enable you to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Distinguish between various types of assessment on the basis of their purpose and place in learning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discuss methods and tools for providing effective feedback to support student learning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Appreciate the role grading plays in communicating student learning and highlight techniques that can make that communication clear and accurate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ll leave this session with refreshed ideas on a range of assessment principles and purposes, and an appreciation of the importance of designing assessment strategies as one of the first stages of course design.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button left\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/cu_event\/assessment-fundamentals-4\/\">Register here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assessment is often one of the most dreaded parts of teaching and learning. But as challenging as it can be, designing sound assessments is critical to the success of your course. Join us on Oct. 17 from 9 a.m. &#8211; noon for a workshop that will enable you to: You\u2019ll leave this session with refreshed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39938,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions\/39938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}