Creative and intentional focus on assessments can increase students sense of inclusion, self-efficacy and belonging in your classroom.

• Create rubrics for assignments, papers, group presentations; share rubrics with students along with assignment directions
• Provide structure and guidelines for student group work and group assignments; guide and reteach skills for productive, inclusive group work
• Provide transparent assignment directions (template)
• Use Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATS) to check for understanding and to promote mental retrieval and deep learning; this can be done in residential, hybrid, and online courses