Best practices in teaching, learning and technology - Aligning assessment

As suggested in the OBTL approach, it is important that the assessment you create is aligned with the course learning outcomes. It is important to remember that assessment is not just a few questions to be answered, but a way to validate if our students are truly learning something.

If your assessment is not aligned with your learning outcomes and instructional strategies, it can greatly affect student motivation and learning. For instance, if students spend many hours in class learning and developing analytical skills but they are given only multiple choice tests for the assessment, they could consider their prior learning experience irrelevant.