Assessment and Evaluation in Instructional Design
EDUC-42595
Assessment and Evaluation in Instructional Design
Prerequisite: Introduction to Instructional Design or Teaching and Learning Online | 10 Weeks
Format: Asynchronous Online with Instructor Feedback and Guidance Throughout
Effective instructional design relies on the ability to measure learning—and improve it. In this hands-on, project-based course, you’ll explore foundational assessment theories and learn how to create meaningful evaluation strategies for a variety of digital learning environments. Whether you’re working in education, corporate training, or professional development, this course equips you with the tools to design, implement, and refine assessments that align with learning goals.
Course Details
You’ll dive into formative and summative assessment techniques, develop systems that provide valuable learner feedback, and explore the use of diagnostic, ipsative, norm-referenced, and criterion-referenced assessments. You’ll also gain practical experience applying process improvement methodologies—like Six Sigma, PDCA, and the Continuous Improvement Model—to help you evaluate and enhance instructional effectiveness over time.
Taught by an experienced instructional design professional, the course provides personalized instructor feedback and opportunities to apply your knowledge through real-world projects that become part of your professional portfolio.
What You'll Learn
- Apply foundational assessment theories to develop evaluation strategies for digital learning.
- Design formative and summative assessments aligned with specific learning outcomes.
- Implement diagnostic, ipsative, norm-referenced, and criterion-referenced assessments in online environments.
- Build assessment systems that deliver meaningful feedback and promote learner growth.
- Use tools and techniques to monitor learning progress and inform instructional improvements.
- Apply process improvement models (e.g., Six Sigma, PDCA) to enhance course and assessment effectiveness.
- Develop portfolio-ready examples of assessment strategies and evaluation plans.
Course Information
Flexible Enrollment: This course is a Required Course for the Instructional Design Professional Certificate but is open to all students, even if you're not enrolled in the Certificate Program.
Academic Calendar: The Academic Calendar shows the open enrollment dates and term start dates for each quarter. Courses do not necessarily start on the first day of the term.
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This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
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All course materials are included unless otherwise stated.
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- No refunds after: 7/7/2025
- Early enrollment advised
- No UCSD parking permit required
- No visitors permitted
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Kristin Ziska Strange
A Leader in Instructional Design and Educational Innovation
Krys Ziska Strange serves as the Associate Director of Faculty Development & Instructional Design, helping to expand the reach and impact of online programs and educational technology at Tufts University. She earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction, exploring the intersections between faculty professional development and faculty identity. She also holds a Masters degree in Library and Information Science from Wayne State University and a Bachelors in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Methodist University.
Before joining Tufts, Krys worked at Digital Learning as the Assistant Director of Technology & Innovation at University of Arizona, as an Instructional Designer and Instructional Technologist for Northern Arizona University's e-Learning Center and spent ten years as a K-12 English teacher (Creative Writing, Speech, American Lit, and Multicultural Lit). After spending a decade in K-12, Krys wasn't quite done with teaching yet. She has spent most of the past decade teaching online and in person in courses for Northern Arizona University, Tufts ExCollege, and University of Arizona. Currently, Krys teaches for the University of Arizona's School of Information in their Games and Behaviors degree, teaching courses on instructional technology, gamification, and game design.
Krys serves as a Lead Instructor and Developer for the UCSD Instructional Design Professional Certificate Program.
Outside of work, Krys spends her time running tabletop RPGs, watching sci-fi, running a moderately successful farm on Stardew, and reading all the books she can get her hands on.
