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Classroom Assessment Techniques: CATS, what are they?

Classroom Assessment Techniques are in-class or online strategies for generating anonymous and ungraded feedback from your students about your teaching effectiveness and how well your students are learning.

Classroom Assessment Techniques
From Indiana University, this article provides a brief overview of why and when classroom assessment techniques are useful with 8 detailed examples.

Classroom Assessment Techniques | Examples
Thomas A. Angelo & K. Patricia Cross
From Classroom Assessment Techniques

Classroom Assessment Technique Examples
Excellent CAT examples from Honolulu Community College. Also be sure to see the Teaching Tips Index

Did They Get It?
Using CATŐs to Improve Student Learning and Motivation
Presentation by Ken Jones

GetFast
A free, online teaching assessment tool. See accompanying article in the Chronicle of Higher Education

GIFT: Group Instructional Feedback Technique

Teaching Goals Inventory, Self-Scoring Version
Eastern New Mexico University

Handbook: Designing and Managing Multiple Choice Questions

Introduction to Classroom Assessment Techniques
From Penn State U. Provides an overview of techniques with some interesting examples at the end of the article

Learning Theories
From "Funderstanding.Com": brief descriptions of Authentic Assessment, Classroom Assessment Techniques, and Portfolio Assessment

PowerPoint Overview of CATs
Portland State University     

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, CAT page
A comprehensive site that includes examples of the following CATS from Angelo & Cross: Primary Trait Analysis, Assessment vs. Grades, Inventory of Teaching Goals, Using Anonymous Assessments, Directed Paraphrasing, Goal Ranking & Matching, The Muddiest Point, The Minute Paper, Self Assessment, Self Confidence Survey, Characteristic Features Matrix, Background Knowledge Probe, RSQC2, Active Learning, Transfer & Apply, Grading Standards, Rubric for Grading Standards, Rubric for Student Participation Guided Essay, Classroom Interviews, What Students Want in a Professor, Assessment of Group Work, Assessing Group Effectivness, Effective Study Time

Test Anxiety Inventory
This instrument is designed to assess affective and academic results of computer programming experience. To access the instrument you will first be prompted for consent to participate as a subject in a research project entitled "Affective and academic results of computer programming experience" conducted by John Mueller and Michele Jacobsen of the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Calgary.

Test your knowledge of human communication
From the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship