Assessment Development Workshop

This in-person workshop provides an opportunity for individual instructors or instructional teams to focus on the enhancement of a new or existing assessment in their course(s).

Through peer feedback and guided work time, informed by facilitated sessions on topics such as rubrics and assessing group work, this workshop helps instructors implement meaningful assessments that support student learning. Instructors should come prepared with a new or existing assessment to enhance over the course of the workshop.  

Intended Learning Outcomes 

By the end of the workshops, participants will be able to:  

• Reflect on what you want students to learn through your assessment 
• Engage with recommended practices for assessment  
• Consider feedback on your assessment design 
• Revise an assessment to best measure the knowledge and skills you most want your students to learn  

Course Format 

The ADW is designed to be highly collaborative with a strong focus on peer feedback. Modelled after an Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW), each day includes a feedback cycle in which participants present their assessments and receive verbal and written feedback from peers.

In addition, participants will engage in interactive group sessions to explore assessment design principles and theories. Topics for these sessions will be selected based on requests from participants and designed to help instructors in designing their individual assessments.

There will be opportunities for individual work and consultations with teaching and learning support staff. Consultants will be selected based on the types of assessments being developed by the participants to ensure a tailored experience for each cohort.