Creating Tests

Designing Tests to Maximize Learning

http://www.ncsu.edu/effective_teaching/Papers/TestingTips.htm

 

           Richard Felder, North Carolina State University and the National Effective Teaching Institute, offers

           this article to faculty in quantitative disciplines who are looking for specific things they can do to

           minimize students' perception that they are being dealt with unfairly on exams.

 

FAQs-5 Designing Fair Tests

http://www.ncsu.edu/effective_teaching/Columns/FAQs-5.html

            This Chemical Engineering Education journal article by Richard Felder and Rebecca Brent, North

            Carolina State University and the National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI), addresses three

            very common questions asked by faculty regarding testing, especially in the quantitative

            disciplines.

 

Beliefs about Grading

http://wtscenarios.com/TRScontent/hmco/s100012content2_5/e3.r.1b.html

 

           A survey on your own beliefs about grading.

 

Grading Practices

Barbara Gross Davis

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/grading.htm

 

           An article on the Honolulu Community College Faculty Development Teaching Tips web site by

          Barbara Gross Davis, University of California-Berkeley. From Tools for Teaching, Jossey-Bass, it

          contains general grading strategies and ways to minimize student complaints about grading.

Testing and Assessing Learning

Wilbert J. McKeachie

http://wtscenarios.com/TRScontent/hmco/s100012content2_5/e3.r.1.x.html

           Since grades in many courses are determined to a great degree by test scores, tests can be among

           the most frustrating aspects of a course to many students. But creating effective tests is not a skill

           that all college teachers automatically possess.