Designing assessment tasks to engage students in learning

Assessment tasks give students the opportunity to demonstrate what they know, value, or can do. Therefore, a focus on assessment design has the potential to have a meaningful impact on student learning and motivating students to learn! Check out examples of assessment strategies McGill instructors have used to engage their students in learning.

• You might also want to hear directly from students in this video (2:15 min) about assignments that helped them learn.
• Learn more about this McGill project: Samuel, C., Dobler, E., Maru, B., & Tovar, M. (2024). How students’ perceptions of assignments that help them learn can inform course design decisions. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 15(1).