D293 Assessment and Learning Analytics OA REVIEW 2025 NEW VERSION UPDATE Western Governors University

D293 Assessment and Learning Analytics OA
REVIEW 2025 NEW VERSION UPDATE Western
Governors University




Types of

Assessment

Formative

Assessment

• Provides insight to instructors and teachers to tailor their
strategies or adjust their lessons

• Used throughout the course

• mnemonic - FORMS the lessons as they go

Diagnostic Assessment

• Typically presented at the start of a course to provide a
point of reference to measure progress

• Some diagnostic tests can be formative

• mnemonic - DIAGNOSES how much learning is needed

Summative Assessment

• Measures the achievement of learning goals or objectives

, • mnemonic - this assessment reveals the SUM of everything
learned

Assessment Strategies

Competency-based

Assessment

• Focuses more on application of skills and knowledge than
possession of knowledge
• mnemonic - competent means you can DO the thing. with this
type of assessment you show that you can DO the thing

Criterion-referenced Assessment

• Measures student learning based on concrete standard,
objective, or outcome
• Item-selection bias - Are the individual test items more suited
to one group’s language and cultural experiences?

• mnemonic - when writing the assessment they
REFERENCE the learning CRITERIA

Ipsative Assessment

• Measures student learning against past knowledge or
performance