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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Assessment for Learning by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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About the Course

For several decades now, assessment has become an increasingly pressing educational priority. Teacher and school accountability systems
have come to be based on analysis of large-scale, standardized summative assessments. As a consequence, assessment now dominates most
conversations about reform, particularly as a measure of teacher and school accountability for learner performance. Behind the often heated
and at times ideologically gridlocked debate is a genuine challenge to address gaps in achievement between different demographically
identifiable groups of students. There is an urgent need to lift whole communities and cohorts of students out of cycles of un...
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Top reviews

TE

Jun 21, 2020

Supports students in rethinking norm-referenced standards for assessment, in comparison with mastery learning. Also introduces educational data mining and whole-program evaluation.

WI

Oct 9, 2022

t​his e-learning is designed in well structured. The structure of this e-learning can make participants active and learn step by step in a better way.

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By Marylou F

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Oct 3, 2022

good

By Sudha S R

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Nov 18, 2022

A very good course to know about assessments in real time situations, videos and lectures were informative and assignments were designed according to the course requirements.

By Youngtak K

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Jun 11, 2024

This course was invaluable for understanding the broader aspects of assessment in the education field. However, the last part(Week 4) was somewhat unexpected.

By Dave L

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Oct 26, 2022

This course is really just a commercial for Michigan University. That being the case, it failed to impress. Some of the content is decent, though highly biased and single-sided. The set-up, with lots of peer assessment, may have worked initially, when there were lots of participants; now, it is tedious at best, and makes it impossible for participants to meet their deadlines.

By Lê N K

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Apr 10, 2023

Not too effective and the way knowledge conveyed are quite bored (at least compared to my prev. courses on Coursera)

By Amul S T

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Jul 9, 2022

Where is my course certificate ?