What happened
Cult of Pedagogy published “How to Create an Assessment Plan” as part of a four-post series on planning instruction. The post uses a short “Safe Food Handling” unit to show how to design diagnostic, formative and summative assessments after writing measurable objectives, and says the process draws on backward design popularized by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.
Why it matters
For educators and learning designers, the example highlights a practical alignment check: match assessment tasks not only to content, but also to the verbs in the objectives. In the food safety example, case-based short-answer scenarios can assess analysis and explanation, but the post notes they cannot directly measure hands-on application during cooking.
What to do next
Review upcoming units or courses by listing required knowledge and skills before choosing assessment formats. Check whether each objective is directly measured, and flag objectives that need later performance evidence. Where grading workload is a constraint, consider focused short-answer prompts with answer keys, while recognizing the limits of written evidence for practical skills.
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