Student Assessments and Your Teaching Practice

When you assess students in your courses, you would typically align tests, assignments, lab work, simulations, or other activities with the course-level and program-level learning outcomes. This can help you gauge students’ mastery of applied knowledge and skills. However, students’ performance on your assessments can also be a valuable tool for learning more about your teaching practice providing insight into how effective you were in facilitating their learning. While there are many factors that can impact a student’s academic success (e.g., academic readiness, study skills, health, life responsibilities, learning or other limitations or needs), it’s important to remember that how well you taught will always play a role.