Assessment Design Skill

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides evidence-based practices for designing assessments that accurately measure learning outcomes. It eliminates guesswork in test creation, ensuring validity, reliability, and fairness, which saves educators time and improves the quality of educational evaluation.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Bloom's Taxonomy Alignment: Guides the selection of assessment types (multiple choice, essay, performance) to match the cognitive level of learning objectives.
• Best Practices for Item Writing: Offers detailed guidelines for crafting effective multiple-choice questions, essay prompts, and performance tasks, avoiding common flaws.
• Rubric Design & Quality Assurance: Provides frameworks for creating analytic and holistic rubrics, ensuring consistent and fair scoring, along with strategies for ensuring validity, reliability, and fairness.
• Use Case: An educator needs to create a unit test. This Skill helps them align questions to specific learning objectives, design clear multiple-choice items that test understanding (not just recall), and develop a fair rubric for an essay question, ensuring the test truly measures what students have learned.

Quick Start

Example: Aligning assessment to Bloom's Level

Objective: "Students will analyze the causes of the American Civil War." (Analyze Level)

Appropriate Assessment: Essay comparing/contrasting causes, case analysis.

Inappropriate Assessment: Multiple choice asking to list dates.