"Student assessment is a critical aspect of the teaching and learning process,"

(Vanderbilt University)

Assessment

Research

• Assessment that Matters: Trending Toward Practices that Document Authentic Student Learning (Jankowski et al., 2018)

• Using Low-Stakes Quizzes To Encourage Mastery (University of Central Florida, 2018)

• Multimodal Assessment – What, Why, and How? (Weeks, 2018)

• Formative Evaluation and Formative Feedback: An Effective Practice to Promote Student Learning in Higher Education (Moya & Tobar, 2017)

• Using Formative Assessment and Metacognition to Improve Student Achievement (Hudesman et al., 2013)

Resources

• Assessment & Feedback, The University of Sheffield

• Assessment Types & Methods, Charles Sturt University

• Enhanced Formative Assessments: Improving Student Performance through Meaningful Feedback, ExamSoft

• Formative & Summative Assessments, Vanderbilt University

• Innovative Assessments, Queen's University

• Student Teaching & Learning, Vanderbilt University

Cognitive Load

Research

"Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a

framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into

how humans learn." ~ CAST

• An Introduction to Cognitive Load Theory (Russell, 2019)

• Cognitive Architecture and Instructional Design: 20 Years Later (Sweller, van Merrienboer, & Paas, 2019)

• How to Avoid Cognitive Overload During Learning (Oracle, 2019)

• Well-Being as a Cognitive Load Reducing Agent: A Review of the Literature(Hawthorne, Vella-Broderick, & Hattie, 2019)

• Battling Your 'Expert Blindspot': Unpack Complex Concepts and Tasks to Lighten Students' Cognitive Load and Promote Deeper Learning (Dvorak, 2018)

• Cognitive Load Theory and its Application in the Classroom (Shibili & West, 2018)

• From Cognitive Load Theory to Collaborative Cognitive Load Theory (Kirschner, Sweller, Kirschner, & Zambrano, 2018)

• Managing Cognitive Load is a Delicate Act of Balance (SHIFT, 2018)

• The Goldilocks Principle: 6 Tips On Creating The ‘Just Right’ eLearning Content(Sudarshan, 2018)

• Using Cognitive Load Theory to Inform Simulation Design and Practice (Reedy, 2015)

• What does Germane Load Mean? An Empirical Contribution to the Cognitive Load Theory (Debue & van de Leemput, 2014)

• Describing the Interplay Between Anxiety and Cognition: From Impaired Performance Under Low Cognitive Load to Reduced Anxiety Under High Load (Vytal, Cornwell, Arkin, & Grillon, 2012)

"Cognitive load theory aims to explain how the information processing load induced by learning tasks can affect students’ ability to process new information and to construct knowledge in long-term memory.

If cognitive load becomes too high, it hampers learning and transfer. Such demands include inadequate instructional methods to educate students about a subject as well as unnecessary distractions of the environment,"

(Sweller, van Merriënboer & Paas, 2019)