Assessment Design

There are multiple ways to design assessments to reduce the need or inclination for students to cheat. In fact, an assessment redesign allows us to bring in more authentic assessments. An authentic assessment is one that tasks students to a problem or question of real world importance. Generally these types of assessments are much harder to plagiarize, since the work the student does is project based, self-reflective, or class specific.

Read the article linked below to learn more about these types of assessments and consider how they could be applied to your subject matter.

Alternative Assessment Methods for the Online Classroom Links to an external site.

Once you've read the article, watch the following faculty perspective with SFCC instructor, Jared Anthony.

In this video Jared talks about using iterative steps to writing assignments and project based assessments as a way to guide students through the learning process and reduce the reasons and opportunities for cheating.

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