{"id":10089,"date":"2021-07-15T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/etdu\/best-practices-in-teaching-learning-and-technology\/aligning-assessment\/"},"modified":"2021-07-15T17:39:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T09:39:07","slug":"aligning-assessment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www-uat.hkmu.edu.hk\/alto\/aligning-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Best practices in teaching, learning and technology - Aligning assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- \/\/generate 2014 TDA main container DIV--> <!-- Right Content --> &lt;!--\r\n   <tr>\r\n       <td>  \r\n--&gt; <!-- \/\/Right Content --> &lt;!--<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"20\" cellspacing=\"3\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td>--&gt; &lt;!-- <table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"3\" width=\"100%\"><tr><td> --&gt; <!-- TTTT: tcAdmSing--> \n         <div id=\"ItemDtlDiv\">\n          <p> <font size=\"-1\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">As suggested in the OBTL approach, it is important that the assessment you create is aligned with the course learning outcomes. It is important to remember that assessment is not just a few questions to be answered, but a way to validate if our students are truly learning something. <\/font><\/p> \n          <p align=\"center\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ouhk.edu.hk\/ETPU\/etpu2016\/03\/03-c.jpg\" alt=\"Aligning assessment\"><\/p> \n          <p> <font size=\"-1\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">If your assessment is not aligned with your learning outcomes and instructional strategies, it can greatly affect student motivation and learning. For instance, if students spend many hours in class learning and developing analytical skills but they are given only multiple choice tests for the assessment, they could consider their prior learning experience irrelevant. <\/font><\/p> \n          <p>&nbsp; <\/p> \n         <\/div><!--\/\/ TTTT: tcAdmSing--> &lt;!--\r\n\t<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\t<\/table>\r\n\t--&gt; <!-- \/\/Right Content END --> <!-- cselement: stSchSingRelatedLinks start --> &lt;!--<\/td><\/tr><\/table>--&gt; \n        <\/div> \n       <\/div> <!-- end 2014 TAD main container DIV-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;!-- --&gt; &lt;!----&gt; &lt;!-- --&gt; As suggested in the OBTL approach, it is important that the assessment you create is aligned with the course learning outcomes. It is important to remember that assessment is not just a few questions to be answered, but a way to validate if our students are truly learning something. If...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"content_default_1.php","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-uat.hkmu.edu.hk\/alto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-uat.hkmu.edu.hk\/alto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-uat.hkmu.edu.hk\/alto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-uat.hkmu.edu.hk\/alto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-uat.hkmu.edu.hk\/alto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www-uat.hkmu.edu.hk\/alto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10122,"href":"https:\/\/www-uat.hkmu.edu.hk\/alto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10089\/revisions\/10122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-uat.hkmu.edu.hk\/alto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}