Assessment Solutions for e-Learning
Assessment, when used well, has long been recognised as a key element of developing effective learning. The rise in recent years of online assessment has brought a range of assessment tools and techniques into general use. While they provide an important framework to facilitate the delivery of online assessment, questions remain regarding the effective design and development of pedagogically fit online assessment.
Topics:
- Traditional assessment methods and techniques
- Pedagogic fitness of assessment methods and techniques
- Levels of learning linked to assessment
- Goal analysis and learning objectives in assessment design
- The role of feedback in developing successful learning
- Planning online assessment
- Assessment blueprints to drive focused assessment
- Linking online assessment to traditional assessment
- Types of online assessment and potential for learning
- Designing effective online assessment to aid learning
Who is it for?
This workshop is aimed at individuals who are either currently delivering or are preparing to deliver assessment online. The workshop covers analysis, evaluation, planning and design stages leading to the development of pedagogically effective online assessment.
Participants should be familiar with the use of a computer keyboard and mouse, Microsoft Windows based products and the use of a web browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer. An awareness of the basic concepts of web-based delivery would be useful. This workshop does not aim to teach specific skills in using any online assessmentproducts.
By the end of the workshop participants will have:
- Investigated a range of different online assessment types and tools
- Investigated the use of online assessment to evaluate learner performance
- Explored a range of online feedback methods and techniques
- Matched assessment techniques to different learning needs
- Constructed an assessment blueprint
- Created an assessment rubric containing grading criteria
- Evaluated a range of types of online assessment
- Related questions types to levels of learning using Blooms taxonomy
