Assessing Student Learning

College of Medicine

Overview

Assessment is the process used by educators to understand, document, and respond to changes occurring in learners. This process should be considered continuous; steps are taken to collect information on the degree to which knowledge has been transferred or skills have been developed through a combination of efforts. Gauging prior knowledge/ability, monitoring student progress toward desired outcomes, encouraging student reflection on their progress, providing timely and actionable feedback to students, and offering sufficiently numerous and diverse opportunities for students to demonstrate achievement of desired outcomes after the learning has occurred are all critical steps in the assessment process.  

The Drake Institute is committed to advancing the design and implementation of effective, evidence-based assessment of student learning practices and provides support for both classroom and program-based assessment needs. 

Expected Learning outcomes

• Participants will be able to describe methods and benefits of both formative and summative approaches to assessment.
• Participants will be able to demonstrate implementation of a defined assessment strategy to measure specific objectives.