Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)
Classroom assessment is critical to any learner-driven--as opposed to content-driven--education. Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) provide crucial feedback from students about their on-going understanding of course material.
- Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Classroom Assessment Techniques
"Classroom Assessment is a simple method faculty can use to collect feedback, early and often, on how well their students are learning what they are being taught. The purpose of classroom assessment is to provide faculty and students with information and insights needed to improve teaching effectiveness and learning quality."
- Classroom Assessment Techniques, A Handbook for College Teachers, 2nd Ed
"Classroom Assessment, a major component of Classroom Research, involves student and teachers in the continuous monitoring of students' learning. It provides faculty with feedback about their effectiveness as teachers, and it gives students a measure of their progress as learners. Most important, because Classroom Assessments are created, administered, and analyzed by teachers themselves on questions of teaching and learning that are important to them, the likelihood that instructors will apply the results of the assessment to their own teaching is greatly enhances." By Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross
- The National Teaching and Learning Forum - Classroom Assessment Techniques
The techniques are mostly simple, non-graded, anonymous, in-class activities that give both you and your students useful feedback on the teaching-learning process.
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