Here you will find the answers to the most frequently asked questions about TestEUR.
General
TestEUR is intended for lecturers and assessment developers at Erasmus University Rotterdam who want to improve, innovate, or enrich their assessment practices with a variety of assessment formats.
Whether you are new to assessment design or already experienced in developing evaluation instruments, TestEUR offers inspiration, practical examples, and tools to better align your assessment methods with your learning objectives and educational context.
The website complements the offerings of TeachEUR but focuses specifically on assessment: the ways in which we evaluate knowledge, understanding, skills, and professional growth in education.
TestEUR provides assessment methods in an accessible way to support and strengthen the evaluation of students’ knowledge and skills. These formats help lecturers make informed choices that align with their learning objectives and educational context, contributing to a meaningful assessment experience for students.
All assessment methods on TestEUR are developed or refined in collaboration with educational experts from Risbo, ensuring quality and a positive impact on both the validity of the assessment and the student learning experience. In this way, TestEUR supports lecturers in designing thoughtful and effective assessment practices within Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Feedback, ideas, new formats, or suggestions for improvement are always welcome and contribute to the further development of the platform.
To select assessment methods, you can use the filters or the search bar at the homepage. The following filters are available:
- Purpose of assessment: Select what you want to measure or achieve with the assessment.
- Assessment duration: Choose a format that fits within the available time for students.
- Group size: Filter by the number of students the format is suitable for.
- Assessment environment: Select the setting in which the assessment takes place.
- Composition: Choose whether students work individually or in groups.
- Mode of assessment: Filter by how the assessment is administered.
Below you will find more explanation about the didactic goals (based on Bloom's taxonomy).
With this filter, you indicate what you want to achieve with the assessment. This helps you select formats that align with your intended learning outcomes. This could include assessing knowledge, evaluating skills, or supporting the learning process through formative assessment. By making the goal explicit, the assessment format better aligns with your course outcomes and helps you make informed decisions about what you expect from students.
This filter helps you select formats that fit within the available time for students. Some formats can be administered quickly, for example during a tutorial or lecture, while others require more time for preparation, execution, and grading. Considering time ensures the assessment is feasible while maintaining quality.
This filter helps determine how many students the assessment is suitable for. Whether you want to assess individuals or assign tasks to small or large groups, this filter provides a practical starting point for selecting formats that match the scale of your course.
This filter refers to the context in which the assessment takes place, such as online, on-site, or in a hybrid format. This helps you consider practical conditions and available facilities within your teaching context.
With this filter, you indicate whether students work individually, in groups, or a combination of both. This is particularly relevant when you want to encourage collaboration or, conversely, assess individual performance.
This filter refers to how the assessment is conducted, such as written, oral, digital, or practice-based formats. Using this filter helps you select formats that align with your teaching preferences and the nature of your learning objectives.
Exploration
When designing and administering assessments in higher education, it is important to consider several quality criteria. The three most important are validity, reliability, and transparency.
- Validity refers to whether an assessment actually measures what it is intended to measure. An assessment is valid when its questions align with the learning objectives and course content.
- Reliability concerns the consistency of an assessment. An assessment is reliable if results are stable and reproducible, for example, when different assessors assign the same score or when the assessment yields similar results at another time.
- Transparency and practicality refer to how clear the assessment is for students and how practical it is for both lecturers and students, for example in terms of administration, scoring, and feedback.
Assessment is a cyclical process, also known as the assessment cycle, consisting of the steps: design, construction, administration, feedback, grading, analysis, and evaluation. TestEUR offers inspiration and support across different phases of this cycle, especially during the design and construction stages.
If you want to further develop your knowledge and skills in assessment, Erasmus University Rotterdam offers several professional development opportunities for lecturers:
- Basic Examiner Qualification (BEQ): a program in which you go through the full assessment cycle at course level, from design to evaluation, supported by MicroLabs and an individual portfolio. The BEQ trajectory helps you build a solid foundation in assessment.
- MicroLabs: short, theme-based sessions where you quickly gain knowledge on specific topics. Several themes focus on assessment, such as AI and Assessment, Feedback, and Formative Assessment.
- Senior Examiner Qualification (SEQ): for those who want to strengthen assessment at the program level. This trajectory focuses on the quality of assessment within a faculty or program and offers deeper insight into assessment policy and practice.
TestEUR complements these by offering a platform with various assessment methods, where you can gain inspiration and directly see how to design, construct, and implement your assessments. This helps you further develop both your knowledge and practical skills in assessment.
In a later stadium, we will offer a deepdive in theoretical insights on various assessment-related themes.
Support
Do you have a content-related question about one of the assessment formats or themes on TestEUR? Or are you looking for support in further developing high-quality assessment? Then please contact our educational consultants and the Learning & Innovation team of your faculty by filling in the form below. You will be contacted within three working days to schedule an appointment to see how we can best help you.
