My courses do not usually require assessments, so I am a bit new. I am creating a course for an audience of political types from different regions, states, and areas of government, who write regulations. For this audience, a formal "test" would be a bit strong. We still want to assess their knowledge of the content, and are looking for something simple, quick, accurate, subtle, and respectful.

The main course goal is to enable learners to outline a regulation with the necessary substantive considerations and main elements (like transparency, etc.). However, the actual regulations would differ from one person to another, since their laws have different requirements. This means that there is no right and wrong answer for the class, but there are better and worse regulations based on "best practices". That's the long explanation.

Here is my initial idea: in small groups, or individually, give learners a section of the law, like "Licenses", and have them outline the regulation, including the "best practice" characteristics. Then learners are evaluated on a 1-3 scale using a rubric(which we won't share with them, but use internally).

What are your thoughts?

How about setting up a competition between them since the problem is open anyway and then get all the groups to vote for the best results. Of course they can't vote for themselves.

The discussion to select the best answer that follows is a great way to teach and increase the retention rate for the content just thought.

Hope this helps.

Thank you, Chelsea.