Introduction

As a 21st-century college instructor, you know what a crush teaching can be! You face a maze of issues: technology, diverse students, helicopter parents, outcomes assessment, shrinking budgets, rapidly changing fields, etc. Assessing your own students in your own classes is definitely part of that mix. It is most likely a part of your job, though, on which you haven’t had systematic education or training. Perhaps you’ve been to a workshop on using clickers in your classroom, or you’ve read a book about e-portfolios. But we’d wager you’ve not had sustained, integrated study regarding student assessment.