Toolbox Assessment

Designing good quality assessments, related to your teaching activities and learning objectives (constructive alignment), is challenging but very important, as the statement indicates. The assessment steers the learning process and has substantial consequences for the students. That is why you want to make sure our assessment is of good quality; that it will be valid, reliable, and transparent. Besides these criteria, efficiency and practicability may also be important factors. 

Designing, administering, assessing, grading, and evaluating assessments, can be seen as a process or cycle with several steps. In our toolbox, we give you information on each step of this assessment cycle. After the design phase, the steps are to some extent different for assessing with written tests or assignments. We therefore address these separately.  

First general step: 1. Design (learning objectives, method choice, assessment scheme, specification table).