May 16th Workshop Materials

• Workshop Presentation
• Handout/Resource Packet

Example Signature Assessments at CSU

• Philosophical Conversation (from CSU’s PHL 115)
• Global Cities Presentations (From CSU’s UST 206)
• Utopian Visioning (from CSU’s UST 250)
• Your Civic Engagement Playbook (from CSU’s UST 207)
• The Flint Water Crisis (from CSU’s CHM 151)
• Deflategate (from CSU’s CHM 151)
• Memo to the Mayor (from CSU’s UST 202)

Other Example Signature Assessments

• From Kay Sambell and Sally Brown’s collections
  • Authentic Assessment Compendium 1
  • Authentic Assessment Compendium 2
  • Authentic Assessment Compendium 3
  • Authentic Assessment Compendium 4

Related Resources & Templates

• Bloom’s Taxonomy Verb Wheel – This graphic can help with the crafting of goals and outcomes at the desired level of the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Complexity
• Signature Assignment Overview Template – This template follows best practices for assignment instructions as provided by the Transparency in Learning & Teaching (TILT) initiative. Page 2 provides a completed example.
  • The above template is modified from the original Transparent Assignment Design Template
• Authentic Assessment Products or Performances – A taxonomy of different types of authentic products or processes. This taxonomy can be helpful in breaking out of the standard essay or exam methodologies. From the University of Illinois-Chicago’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence.

Academic Research on Signature Assessments

• Establishing the critical elements that determine authentic assessment: Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education: Vol 39, No 2 (tandfonline.com)
• Rethinking authentic assessment: work, well-being, and society | Higher Education (springer.com)