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ED136

Assessment Alternatives for Instructors

Career education programs prepare students to perform job tasks successfully in their chosen trade or profession. Providing opportunities beyond traditional quizzes and exams allows students to demonstrate and assess these skills and aids in this preparation. This course focuses on how you, the instructor, can identify and implement alternative assessments that support expected course outcomes and allow students to demonstrate their level of competency for a skill or task.

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In conjunction with the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, MaxKnowledge has been honored by the 1EdTech Consortium as a Learning Impact Award Finalist for scaling pedagogical knowledge and practice through evidence-based technology.

MaxKnowledge Founder & CEO, Dr. Amir Moghadam, has been named as one of Career College Central's top 12 innovators leaping forward with ideas that have influenced the career education realm.

MaxKnowledge Chief Learning Officer, Tarlon Moghadam, has been named as one of Career Education Review's top 20 leaders changing career education.

In collaboration with the Universal Technical Institute, an independent evaluation study by the ROI Institute® proved the ROI of MaxKnowledge employee training on student retention to be over 500%.

MaxKnowledge leadership development courses are sponsored by Harvard Business Publishing and feature content from Harvard ManageMentor®.

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This course provides you with a lifelong peer-to-peer learning opportunity through a specific Performance Group created within the Career Ed Lounge, a learning community of career education professionals. This allows you to learn and share with your peers at any time you want, even after you complete the course.

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Course Objectives

Module 1: What Is Assessment

Describe competency-based education
Identify the advantages and disadvantages of assessment alternatives
Formulate steps to select, develop, and evaluate an appropriate assessment
Describe various assessment methods and their purpose
Describe the value of alternative methods to assess student learning

Module 2: Alternative Assessments for Students

Select an appropriate assessment alternative for a learning outcome
Describe the relationship between outcomes and taxonomies
Compare Finkâ€™s and Bloomâ€™s Taxonomies
Describe the characteristics of rubrics

Module 3: Using Alternative Assessments

Describe the process for developing instruction after the assessment has been determined
Identify the characteristics and elements of portfolios
Explain the differences between cases studies and problem-based learning
List and describe instructional technology that may be used to aid in assessment

Module 4: Evaluating the Assessment

Describe various alternative assessment techniques
Identify data to be collected to evaluate and revise an assessment
List and describe other assessment terms
Describe all the steps in the assessment development process

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Course Format

Can Start Anytime
Self-paced (within course enrollment timeframe)
4 Hours of Activities

Completion Requirements

Study Course Content
Pass ALL Required Quizzes

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4 Hours of Continuing Education
Awarded upon successful completion of course

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Certification Credits

This course provides a Certificate of Completion with 4 hours of continuing education credits.
This course provides credit toward the Certified Higher Education Professional (CHEP) credential in the following specialization area(s):
- CHEP in Teaching
This course provides credit toward the continuing education requirements for CHEPs in all areas of specialization.

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