Educational Assessment of and for Learning

1 Course Unit

This course introduces the essential theories and practices of cognition based educational assessment and the focus will be on exploring the implications of recent developments in cognitive psychology and learning theories for educational assessment by reviewing available assessment examples and research assessment prototypes. It includes topics like, what is the purpose of assessment, how can we design fair and valid assessments to elicit student cognition, how technologies can support the measurement of student cognition and learning processes, and assessment and social justice and accessibility issues. Spring 1 Course Unit