Assessment Design: Creating a Practical Checklist

Before beginning any task, a clear and specific outcome needs to be defined. Creating assessments is no different. One way to ensure that those target goals are being met is to develop a practical checklist of questions which will guide the assessment design process. Below is an example of the first steps in this design process:

Begin with questions and provide answers.

Is this assessment formative?

Yes, this assessment will be designed as a learning progression in which sub skills of a greater curricular goal are constructed. Both teacher and student based strategies may be adjusted along the way.

Beginning with this type of template can be extremely useful in the drafting of any assessment.

A more detailed approach can be found here.