You want to use assessment to help your students develop a Biblical worldview. You want to use assessment to help your students connect what they study, the Bible, and their lives. Good. Just make sure your assessment is a good assessment.

1. Question: How good is your assessment?
2. Answer: To answer that question, consider the following 5 questions:

1. To what extent is your assessment Student-friendly in terms of vocabulary and length (75 words or less)? Your assessment needs to be student-friendly because students are taking the assessment. Your assessment doesn’t need to be teacher-friendly because the teacher isn’t taking the assessment. What do I mean by teacher friendly? I mean the prompt is written for the teacher. I’ve seen prompts only the teacher could really understand—500 words with no clear point.
2. To what extent does your assessment require your students to Connect content/skills, Biblical principle(s), and life? Don't give an assessment that leaves things disconnected. That’s like putting chocolate chip cookie ingredients (flour, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla, and chocolate chips) in a bowl, but not stirring them together to make dough. Which would you rather eat: chocolate chip cookie dough or unmixed ingredients?
3. To what extent does your assessment give Opportunities for student choice, as appropriate? Giving your students the opportunity to make choices unleashes student learning and potential. I’ve seen this repeatedly. So have you.
4. To what extent is your assessment Rigorous?A rigorous assessment inspires student learning. In my experience, students enjoy challenging assessments and don’t enjoy easy assessments.
5. To what extent is your assessment Even worthy of being taught to? Prepare your students by teaching to the assessment. Just make sure your assessment is actually worthy of being taught to!

Use assessment to help your students develop a Biblical worldview. Give them a good assessment. Today.