Monitoring Student Learning Through Assessment builds the full assessment-literacy toolkit MAT candidates need — from formative checks to standardized data, designed and defended with evidence.
What D638 covers
The course enhances students' skills in evaluating learner progress and educational outcomes, exploring formative and summative assessments, standardized tests, benchmark assessments, progress monitoring, and alternative assessment strategies.
Students design effective assessment tools, interpret data to inform instruction, and provide meaningful feedback, including a foundation of data analysis and online/digital assessment tools. This course requires students to design an assessment based on evidence-based practices.
The D638 performance assessment
Expect a performance assessment requiring you to design an original assessment tool grounded in evidence-based practices, for a given lesson or unit.
Key topics in D638
- Formative vs. summative assessment
- Designing assessment tools
- Interpreting data to inform instruction
- Evidence-based assessment design
Writing tips for D638
Follow the task instructions and rubric line by line
WGU performance assessments for D638 are graded against a fixed rubric — every rubric line has to be visibly addressed, usually with a labeled heading that mirrors the rubric language. Skipping a rubric point because it seems minor is the single most common reason a competent submission comes back "Not Yet Competent" for revision.
Ground every claim in a specific classroom scenario, not teaching in the abstract
Education courses like D638 typically ask you to apply theory to a specific grade level, subject, or student population rather than write about teaching generically. Evaluators are checking whether your reasoning fits that concrete classroom situation.
Because WGU is self-paced, don't let "no deadline pressure" become no submission
There's no weekly due date forcing progress, which means procrastination costs more at WGU than at a traditional term-based school — a stalled task can quietly eat weeks of a term. Treat your own target date for each D638 assessment as a real deadline.
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Why students seek help with D638
MAT candidates sometimes design an assessment without justifying it against the evidence-based practices the course specifically requires — the rubric typically wants that evidence base explicitly cited.
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Place Your Order View All ServicesPrerequisites and program context
D638 has no listed additional prerequisites and is shared across all 9 MAT programs.
- Master of Arts in Teaching, Elementary Education
- Master of Arts in Teaching, English Education (Secondary)
- Master of Arts in Teaching, Mathematics Education (Secondary)
- Master of Arts in Teaching, Science Education (Secondary Biology)
- Master of Arts in Teaching, Science Education (Secondary Chemistry)
- Master of Arts in Teaching, Science Education (Secondary Earth Science)
- Master of Arts in Teaching, Science Education (Secondary Physics)
- Master of Arts in Teaching, Social Studies Education (Secondary)
- Master of Arts in Teaching, Special Education
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Frequently asked questions
D638 closely mirrors D659 (Assessing and Monitoring Student Learning), the equivalent undergraduate course — adapted for MAT post-baccalaureate candidates.