Best practices in summative assessment

The goal of this review is to highlight key elements underpinning excellent high-stakes summative assessment. This guide is primarily aimed at faculty members with the responsibility of assigning student grades and is intended to be a practical tool to help throughout the process of planning, develo...

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Published in:Advances in physiology education 2017-03, Vol.41 (1), p.110-119
Main Author: Kibble, Jonathan D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Educational Measurement - methods
Educational Measurement - standards
Faculty - standards
Humans
Physiology - education
Students
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Summary:The goal of this review is to highlight key elements underpinning excellent high-stakes summative assessment. This guide is primarily aimed at faculty members with the responsibility of assigning student grades and is intended to be a practical tool to help throughout the process of planning, developing, and deploying tests as well as monitoring their effectiveness. After a brief overview of the criteria for high-quality assessment, the guide runs through best practices for aligning assessment with learning outcomes and compares common testing modalities. Next, the guide discusses the kind of validity evidence needed to support defensible grading of student performance. This review concentrates on how to measure the outcome of student learning; other reviews in this series will expand on the related concepts of formative testing and how to leverage testing for learning.
ISSN:1043-4046
1522-1229
DOI:10.1152/advan.00116.2016