Defines authentic assessment and provides a table comparing authentic and traditional assessment strategies. Outlines the advantages and disadvantages of using authentic assessment techniques and provides a list of high-quality scholarly references on this topic.

Suggestions for the improvement of multiple-choice tests using "item analysis" statistics, frequently provided by testing software packages.

The authors discuss an assessment of accelerated summer courses compared with nonaccelerated courses that uses local contextual information to improve the assessment.

From UT Austin, this Web site provides guidance in assessing students, assessing teaching, assessing technology, and program evaluation. Includes a glossary and bibliography.

Guidelines for evaluating oral history interviews from the Oral History Association.

Chapter from the book "LTDI: Implementing Learning Technology" that outlines various evaluation and assessment methods for courses. (PDF format)

Document by Arthur Chickering and Stephen Ehrmann expands on the original "Seven Principles for Best Practice in Undergraduate Education" with applications of technology.

By Thomas Angelo and Patricia Cross, this inventory is designed to help faculty focus on their teaching and learning goals for their courses.

Article by a professor who uses this assessment technique in his introductory psychology course of 250 students.

Article on Classroom Assessment Techniques that includes examples; from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville