Tuition Funding: Educational Assessment
April 15, 2026
Submitted by: Janel Aquin
Educational Assessment is a course that is offered at the University of Winnipeg. I took this course as a part of my inclusive education post bac program. The course discussed how using effective and fair assessment tools can be life changing. As teachers, we assess students in a variety of ways using a variety of techniques and processes. This course widened my knowledge of assessment strategies and built upon my past knowledge of triangulation (for, as and of learning). I will take with me the expanded understanding of the role of assessment as learning where students self-reflect and begin to set their own goals to become motivated lifelong learners. This course helped me to understand the role of universal design for learning and how project-based learning ties into programming and assessment for all students across ability levels. Course content discussed the role of curriculum as a support to provide programming in inclusive ways using bloom’s taxonomy, criteria and rubrics. AI use was integrated with a project-based learning plan of our own. As we are all working in environments that encompass a wide variety of skill sets, this knowledge was foundational to understanding how to program successfully for a wide variety of abilities and learners—taking into account both their interests and strengths.