ASSESSING LARGE SECOND YEAR UNDERGRADUATE SERVICE COURSES IN DATA ANALYSIS

The guiding principle in the assessment of any course is that we must assess what we teach. We begin by outlining the assessment instruments we use and discuss how we use these instruments to assess what we teach. We then look at the following assessment considerations: firstly, two specific types of questions we use and why we use them, then equity for students across semesters, the time and cost associated with assessment, some strategies and administrative tools and finally, one of the biggest challenges, finding enough suitable data sets to use.