Date/Time
Date(s) - 15/10/2025 - 22/10/2025
10:00 am - 3:30 pm

Are you designing an assessment and struggling with challenges related to generative AI or how to make your assessment more accessible? If so, the Assessment Development Workshop (ADW) may be for you. This virtual, intensive two-day (4.5 hours per day) workshop will provide you with an opportunity to focus on enhancing an existing assessment or designing a new one.  

Through reflection, guided work time, and peer feedback, you will work to hone your assessment and its evaluation framework to support student learning. The workshop will also include individualized consultations and facilitated group sessions on topics like constructive alignment, universal design for learning, generative AI, flexible grading approaches, and more. 

Register soon as space in the workshop is limited to 10 participants; registration is first come first served.  

Intended Learning Outcomes 

By the end of the workshop, you should be able to: 

• Design or redesign an assessment and corresponding evaluation framework that:

1. Are constructively aligned with one or more course-level intended learning outcomes;
2. Incorporate principles of universal design for learning;
3. Adhere to McMaster’s Guidelines on the Use of Generative AI in Teaching and Learning, and other relevant policies;

• Engage in reflective teaching practice by giving, receiving, and reflecting on feedback (provided by both workshop participants and MacPherson Institute staff) related to assessment and evaluation design.

Who Can Participate 

You are eligible to register if you are:   

• Teaching or contributing to a course that will be offered during the upcoming academic year,    
• Eager to learn more about an instructional and learning design approach to assessment and evaluation framework design, and     
• Able to commit to the dates of the ADW in full. 

You should come to the workshop prepared with an existing course assessment that you would like to enhance, or an idea for a new course assessment that you would like to develop. 

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