Course Job Aids
- Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Worksheet (editable Word document)
- Cognitive Process Levels: description, learning objective verbs and examples
- Cognitive Process Learning Activities
Resources
Assessment (general)
- What is Assessment of Learning?
- Bloom's Taxonomy Verbs
- Bloom's Taxonomy: Original and Revised
- Learning Domains or Bloom's Taxonomy
- An Introduction to Assessment - the Basics
- What's Assessment All About? (CAP)
- Assessment Toolbox (CAP)
- Cooperative Assessment Project (CAP)
- Assessment Glossary (CAP)
- Emerging Technologies Resources
- Alternative/Performance-Based Assessment
Objective Tests
- How to Write Better Tests: A Handbook for Improving Test Construction Skills, Indiana University, Bloomington
- Testing Higher Level Skills, University of Leeds
- Designing Effective Objective Test Questions, Loughborough University
- Multiple Choice Questions, University of Technology, Syndey
Essays
- Developing Essay Items, Park University
Concept Maps
- Concept Mapping
- Improving Note Taking with Concept Maps
- Using Concept Maps to Establish Meaningful Relationships
- The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct Them
Projects and Performances
References
Anderson, L.W., & Krathwohl (Eds.). (2001). A Taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: A revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. New York: Longman.
Angelo, T. A., Cross, K. P. (1993) Classroom assessment techniques: A handbook for college teachers, second edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Benson, A. D. Assessing participant learning in online environments. New directions for adult and continuing education, no. 100, Winter 2003, 69-78.
Diez, M. E., and Moon, J. C. What do we want students to know?...and other important questions. Educational Leadership, May 1992, 38-41.
Forehand, M. (2005) Bloom's taxonomy: Original and revised. In M. Orey (Ed.), Emerging perspectives on learning, teaching, and technology. Retrieved August 16, 2006, from http://www.coe.uga.edu/epltt/bloom.htm.
McMillan, J. H. (2001) Classroom assessment: Principles and practice for effective teaching. Second Edition. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Meyer, C.A. (1992) What’s the difference between authentic and performance assessment? Educational Leadership, May 1992, 39-40.
Palomba, C. A., Banta, T. W. (1999) Assessment essentials: Planning, implementing, and improving assessment in higher education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Race, P., Brown, S., and Smith, B. (2002) 500 Tips on Assessment, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge Falmer.
Stiggins, R. J. (1997) Student-centered classroom assessment. 2nd Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Wiggins, G. (1998) Educative assessment: Designing assessments to inform and improve student performance. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Wiggins, G. (1993) Assessing student performance: exploring the purpose and limits of testing. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Wolf, K., Stevens, E. (2007) The role of rubrics in advancing and assessing student learning. The Journal of Effective Teaching, Vol 7, No. 1, 3-14.