Instructor’s considerations for assessing individual students’ learning in team-based coursework

The effective assessment of individual students’ learning in team-based coursework is a complex process which may not be fully understood by academic practitioners, much less mastered.To help bring greater understanding to this pedagogical challenge, this research team developed an ALTC-funded project to investigate current assessment practices in the team-based context and toderive an effective assessment framework. This paper reports the current results of the ongoing data analysis, and includes a discussion of their import: for academic staff offering team-based subjects as well as those interested more generally in the assessment of student learning.