Standards based grading is a formal assessment mechanism that tests for student achievement of specified learning objectives, or standards. Standards-Based-Grading has been gaining in popularity in K-12 education, and also has been seeing increased use in higher education, though it has only recently been used in engineering education. This paper describes how StandardsBased Grading was impleme...

Multiple choice questions are a convenient and popular means of testing beginning students in programming courses. However, they are qualitatively different from exam questions. This paper reports on a study into which types of multiple choice programming questions discriminate well on a final exam, and how well they predict exam scores.

To reduce academic dishonesty and strengthen learning outcomes, I adopted in-depth oral examinations as my benchmark summative assessments in a Human Anatomy & Physiology course taught an online asynchronous setting. This decision led students me down the transformative path of mastery learning. was threshold experience for who were how to think express themselves physiologists. also explor...