Assessment Series

The Assessment Series includes two to four workshops a year that address a range of assessment topics, such as:

• designing effective rubrics
• writing multiple-choice questions to assess higher order thinking
• designing effective essay questions
• item analysis for multiple-choice questions
• assessing learning online.

2026-27 Series

• Sep17 Values based assessment
  In-person Register here
  1:30pm-3:00pm

What and how we assess matters both for what we show matters to our students and how we support student learning. This workshop will critically interrogate assessments from a values perspective, exploring where alignment with what we care about shows up in our assessments, and where refinement may result in more meaningful assessment. Scholarship on values based assessment, as well as practical tools for refinement will be shared with participants By the end of this workshop participants should be able to: -identify explicit and implicit values in their teaching practice -interrogate their assessment approach based on their identified values -develop and align assessment with their own values and the values of their disciplines Audience This session is open to any faculty, librarians, archivists, postdoctoral scholars, and staff at Western involved or interested in exploring teaching and learning.