Workshop Resources
Designing Signature Assessments
May 16th Workshop Materials
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
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.
