Assessment is a machine that never stops.

1. Assessment is a machine that never stops.

2. Test and ProjectMapping Lamar State College – Port Arthur February 16 & 17, 2011

3. Test Mapping Test mapping, also known as test blueprinting, is a process by which you identify which questions on your exams match up to the SLOs you’ve identified for the Program or Course and to the level of cognitive activity the question requires, using Bloom’s Taxonomy of measurable verbs. Use one map per test. The same process can be readily applied to projects with multiple parts or elements. Use one map per project.

4. Components of a Test Map • A list of Student Learning Objectives, either at the Program level or at the Course level • Bloom’s Taxonomy of measurable verbs • Your existing test, or material to compose a new test

5. Example of a Test Map This example of a test map comes from a Program, but the process also works at the Course level.

6. Project Mapping • The same underlying principles behind test mapping can also be used to map a project with multiple parts. For example, an English professor would look for the following attributes in a research paper: • Ideas • Organization • Structure • Voice • Word Choice • Sentence Fluency • Sentence Faults • Conventions • Presentation • Documentation

7. Example of a Project Map

8. Now What? • Tip: Tie the map to the questions themselves, not the question number only (although that’s a quick way to map a specific test). Once all your questions are mapped to objective and level, you should be able to rearrange the questions for different seatings of the test. • Use your test or project map • To ensure that you are testing over the objectives adequately • To help you determine at what level your students are succeeding • To report assessment data about specific learning outcomes