Assessment Principles
Studio
Welcome to the University of Calgary Assessment Principles Studio! This AI-powered online tool helps you explore how your assessment tasks align with UCalgary’s Assessment Principles and generates a personalized feedback report with practical recommendations. The output from this tool is intended to offer an opportunity to reflect on your assessment design, purpose, and effectiveness.
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Input your course context
Input your course context details as well as your course level learning outcomes. If you are looking at a graded assessment, choose ‘Summative’ assessment type. If it is an ungraded assessment, choose ‘Formative’ assessment type.
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Select the principles to explore
Select the Assessment principles you want to explore further. We suggest you focus on 2 or 3 rather than all 11 principles.
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Add your assessment task
Add the details for your particular assessment task by either uploading a document describing the assignment or adding a text description in the appropriate box.
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Generate the report
Click on the red ‘Generate report’ button. This process may take a few minutes. Your Feedback Report will include three sections: Principles at a glance (high-level overview), Alignment (strength of your design), and Continue the journey (practical recommendation).
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Review the Feedback Report
The Principles at a Glance section provides a simplistic high-level analysis based on the principle(s) you chose above. Note: It is common for the summary Alignment box to say ‘No principles fully met’ as it is looking for direct correlations. It does not mean your assessment is poorly designed. The in-depth Alignment section outlines the current strengths of your assessment design. These descriptions can be helpful for articulating the purposes of the task to students and teaching assistants. The Continue the Journey section provides practical recommendations to consider as you move forward. These are considerations only, and we encourage you to reflect thoughtfully on how this assignment fits into the overall assessment design for your course and program.
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Generate another report or download
Scroll up to generate another report or download the current report. As with all AI-powered tools, we encourage you to ask for multiple responses in order to use your own best judgment about which recommendations are most appropriate for your context. Note that the Assessment Principles Studio does not save any information, so you will want to download any reports that you would like to save or compare.
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Reflect on your assessment task design
You may be ready to make some changes based on the recommendations provided by the Studio, or you may want to discuss them further with a colleague. We also welcome you to reach out to book an appointment with an assessment specialist at the Taylor Institute through our website or by email at taylorinstitute@ucalgary.ca.
Course Context(required)
Provide details about the course to contextualize the evaluation.
Choose 'Summative' for a graded assessment, or 'Formative' for an ungraded one.
Assessment Principles
Select which principles to evaluate against. We suggest you focus on 2 or 3 rather than all 11. Expand each principle to read its description. There is no expectation that any single assessment task will meet all of these principles.
Assessment Input
Choose 'Task' if providing the original assessment, or 'Description' for your course outline description. Upload a document or paste text directly.
PDF or DOCX accepted.
You may paste text directly or upload a document above.