Essential Intent and Assessment

Let's take the essential intent statement for the Vehicle Maintenance course as an example. Notice how it guides the assessment strategy for the course:

As you see, once the essential intent of the course is established, the assessment strategy is easy to define and align with the course intent. In the case of the Vehicle Maintenance course, the assessment strategy could include a two part submission of a vehicle maintenance schedule as well as one or two quizzes throughout the course.

By closely aligning the course intent with the assessment strategy we create an assessment plan that ensures students are fairly and equitably assessed.