A different kind of test

Assessment in Higher Education …

spotted over at Edwired

“Scholars need to–must, in fact–develop assessment tools that can demonstrate that our students have really learned something worth knowing. We have to come to clearer agreements on what that learning would look like and then show how, without multiple choice tests, we have assessed that learning over a trajectory of years. And, when we fail to meet our own benchmarks, we have to show what interventions we’ve implimented to address some lack of success among our students.”

I couldn’t have said it better myself.