Best practices in assessment and testing call for a variety of activities to evaluate student learning. Multiple data points more accurately present an evaluation of student strengths and needs. Some learning activities also serve as assessment activities to provide authentic learning and assessment opportunities. These activities are designed to encourage higher-order cognitive thinking, and most focus on real-world applications and/or twenty-first-century skills. Note that assessment items are available for each lesson.
- A mastery test at the end of each module or lesson provides the teacher and the student with clear indicators of areas of strength and weakness. These multiple-choice tests are taken online.
- A unit post-test helps a teacher track how well students have mastered a unit’s content.
- An end-of- semester test assesses the major objectives covered in a class. By combining the unit post-test information with the end-of-semester test results , teachers will get a picture of student progress.
See the Student Proctoring section below for proctoring requirements for end-of-semester tests.