Classroom Assessment Techniques: Overview   -   PDF
Classroom Assessment Techniques are a collection of strategies designed to help instructors collect systematic feedback regarding student learning.

Classroom Assessment Techniques: Getting Started   -   PDF
A Classroom Assessment Technique is a specific procedure or activity designed to help you gather useful data regarding student learning, and there are a wealth of classroom assessments from which you could choose to utilize in your course.

Classroom Assessment Techniques: The Caveats   -   PDF
Consider five important ideas when utilizing Classroom Assessment Techniques.

Classroom Assessment Techniques: Minute Paper   -   PDF
The Minute Paper is perhaps the most commonly used Classroom Assessment Technique. Sometimes referred to as the "One-Minute Paper" or the "Half Sheet Response"—the Minute Paper is a quick and easy way to collect written feedback on student learning.

Classroom Assessment Techniques: Muddiest Point   -   PDF
Muddiest Point is considered one of the simpler Classroom Assessment Techniques. It requires little preparation on the part of the instructor, yet it yields a wealth of information. It works particularly well in large, lower division courses where a significant amount of new information is presented.

Classroom Assessment Techniques: One-Sentence Summary   -   PDF
One-Sentence Summary is a technique that requires students to synthesize information into a single sentence. This strategy gives students practice in "chunking" information and provides instructors the opportunity to scan and compare responses quickly.

Classroom Assessment Techniques: Applications Card   -   PDF
The Applications Card is a quick and easy assessment technique that encourages students to think about the broader relevance of course content. It provides a mechanism for linking theory and practice, and these links strengthen the mental connections that result in significant learning. In addition, it is easily adapted to a variety of class types and sizes.

Classroom Assessment Techniques: Directed Paraphrasing   -   PDF
Directed Paraphrasing is a technique that forces instructors and students to consider the wider relevance of content. Particularly useful for fields that require experts to translate specialized information in a way that clients or customers will understand, this technique is a worthwhile scaffold for helping students develop such skills.

Classroom Assessment Techniques: Problem Recognition Tasks   -   PDF
Experts in a field have much more complex mental structures than novices who are encountering content for the first time. For experts, recognizing a particular type of problem often feels as if it comes naturally; it has become second nature. This task is much more difficult for novice learners. It is often difficult for students to determine which problems are best solved by which methods. Problem Recognition Tasks help students master this challenging type of work. This Classroom Assessment Technique also pushes students to think more generally, as opposed to seeing problems as a myriad of isolated types.