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"JISC's new guide Effective Assessment in a Digital Age demonstrates how technology can significantly improve the experience of assessment and feedback. As many higher education institutions are reviewing their assessment strategies, JISC is looking at the transformative effects of technology that increase learner autonomy, enhances the quality of the assessment experience and improves teaching efficiency. "

"Classroom assessment techniques : a handbook for college teachers"

"(1) How well are students learning? and (2) How effectively are teachers teaching? Classroom Research and Classroom Assessment respond directly to concerns about better learning and more effective teaching. "

" Programs VALUE: Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education"

"This paper discusses three promising alternatives that afford authentic, information-rich, meaningful assessments that are essential for improving student learning, and at the same time provide reportable data for comparisons. "

By Robert M. Diamond. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2nd edition 1998. (On Worldcat)

ALEKS produces web-based, artificially intelligent educational software used for assessment and then individualized lesson plans. Developed at the University of California, Irvine with funding from the National Science Foundation.

mentioned in Deeper Learning thread in NGLC Jam 2012 as a case that the Stanford professor who founded Udacity, a start-up for low cost online courses expected to reach masses, may follow for handling feedback. "progressive and multiple successes on practice problems demonstrates deeper learning." see tag 'article' for the link to the article about this professor in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

By Robert J. Mislevy, Linda S. Steinberg, & Russell G. Almond, Education Testing Service, December 4, 1999. Overview of program of research and application that introduces a framework for designing, producing and delivering educational assessments.

Project of the University of California to create "student-centered educational opportunities" online and to enable researchers to then use assessment data to look at "how online education can be effectively integrated into the UC undergraduate curriculum."

This UC project is a Wave 1 grantee.

As per the Reader Notes (at the top of the document), this is a project funded by the Hewlett Foundation to Peer to Peer University. This white paper draft is available, for comment, in Google Docs. David Gibson is one author.

David Gibson, a Jam participant, provided a link to this draft with this comment: "a white paper I co-authored with others under a grant from foundations driving the new efforts in badging. We're seeking public input and feedback on the paper."

This page provides the Bioliteracy project's information on concept inventory. LY mentioned the Biological Concept Inventory in the Deeper Learning thread as a working partner for the BioBook group in the area of Genetics.

Report to download (PDF) By Louise Yarnall, Larry Gallagher & Geneva Haertel, December 2009, SRI International: Inquiries Into Community College "...report on determining what big ideas matter to undergraduates in biology, particularly non majors."

By Grant P. Wiggins and Jay McTighe. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1998. (On Worldcat) "With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. "

The SALG website is a free course-evaluation tool that allows college-level instructors to gather learning-focused feedback from students.