Assessment and Evaluation in Education
Tools and methods for evaluating student learning.
A closer look at your course
What you’ll learn
Learning objectives drawn from the published course content.
- Distinguish assessment purposes.
- Separate response, inference and action.
- Bound claims from a local check.
- Define the intended construct.
- Detect irrelevant demand and omitted evidence.
- Align tasks and evidence.
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- Reconcile marks and essential demands.
- Interpret boundary profiles.
- Preserve missingness and provisional status.
- Write uncued tasks.
- Define sufficient and partial evidence.
- Check keys against supplied records.
- Calculate two types of agreement.
- Resolve disagreement from actual responses.
- Propagate marking revisions.
- Distinguish consistency from valid use.
- Audit an inference chain.
- Prioritise correction and recheck.
- Distinguish errors from causes.
- Choose discriminating follow-ups.
- Avoid unsupported subgroup claims.
- Write evidence-linked feedback.
- Plan a feasible pupil response.
- Check independent transfer.
- Separate access from answer cues.
- Record actual support.
- Audit comparable inference.
- Distinguish planned and actual conditions.
- Preserve version and missingness records.
- Report a bounded result.
- Calculate rates and transitions.
- Distinguish change from cause.
- Propagate conditional revisions.
- Integrate a defensible assessment portfolio.
- Defend a consequential trade-off.
- Apply the six-criterion practice rubric.
Inside the curriculum
Explore the published modules and lessons. Full lesson content is available through your student account, with free enrolment. Learning sequence and administrative access controls still apply.
01Purpose, Construct and Blueprint3 lessons
Connect a bounded assessment decision to intended reasoning and transparent evidence rules.
- Choosing the Assessment Decision Before the Test
- Defining the Construct and Its Evidence Boundaries
- Balancing Items, Marks and the Reporting Criterion
02Instrument, Marking and Quality3 lessons
Elicit uncued evidence and examine response interpretation, consistency and validity.
- Writing Tasks and Anchors That Elicit Reasoning
- Moderating Disagreement Without Inventing Evidence
- Auditing Validity and Consistency as Different Questions
03Diagnostic Use, Feedback and Access3 lessons
Use response evidence for learning while preserving access and independent reasoning.
- Turning Response Patterns into Teaching Decisions
- Designing Feedback That Pupils Can Use
- Preserving the Construct Through Accessible Assessment
04Administration, Evaluation and Defence3 lessons
Record delivery and evaluate paired progress within a coherent assessment portfolio.
- Recording Administration and Reporting Evidence Honestly
- Evaluating Progress Without Confusing Change and Cause
- Capstone: A Defensible Assessment and Evaluation Portfolio
Is this course for you?
Who this is for
Teachers and education colleagues designing classroom assessments, interpreting responses, moderating judgements and evaluating learning evidence.
Before you begin
Basic teaching knowledge, professional English reading and simple marks, proportions and percentages. No real pupil records or practical plant experiment are required.
Who this is not for
This course does not validate a psychometric instrument, award a teaching licence, provide specialist diagnosis or determine statutory assessment arrangements.
Assessment & completion
20 scenario questions, 5 marks each (100 total), covering every lesson. Complete required lessons and select every correct answer before submission. Portfolio/capstone activities support self or instructor review; the portal does not collect or automatically grade projects and they are not an additional certificate gate. Credit allocation awaits institutional approval.
Materials & resources
4 modules with 12 complete lessons, reviewed sources, a connected fictional case, practice portfolio, scored capstone rubric and reusable template.
Course inquiry
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